The European Commission has imposed a record fine of over 1.3 billion dollars on the computer software giant Microsoft. The Commission says the fine was for failing to comply with earlier rulings that the company should provide information to rival software companies. Here is our economics correspondent Andrew Walker.
Microsoft has already been fined for the origional violation of European competition rules and for subsequent failure to come into line. With the latest penalty, the total comes to more than two billion dollars. The case was about the Commission's insistence that Microsoft should provide information that would enable competitors to write programs that would work on computers using other popular Microsoft products. The company itself said in a statement that the fine is about past issues which have been resolved.
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The European Commission has imposed a record fine of over 1.3 billion dollars on the computer software giant Microsoft. The Commission says the fine was for failing to comply with earlier rulings that the company should provide information to rival software companies. Here is our economics correspondent Andrew Walker.
欧盟委员会对电脑软件业巨人-微软处以创记录了13亿美元的罚金。委员会解释说罚金是对微软拒绝执行欧盟早些时候关于像竞争对手提供源代码的规定的处罚。以下来自我们金融通讯记者安德鲁 沃克的报道。
Microsoft has already been fined for the origional violation of European competition rules and for subsequent failure to come into line. With the latest penalty, the total comes to more than two billion dollars. The case was about the Commission's insistence that Microsoft should provide information that would enable competitors to write programs that would work on computers using other popular Microsoft products. The company itself said in a statement that the fine is about past issues which have been resolved.
微软先前已经为违反欧盟的竞争法则受到了处罚以及随后而来的接连溃败。加上最近的处罚，总额已经达到了近20亿美元。案件是关于委员会坚持微软应该提供相关源代码从而使它的竞争对手们可以制作出相关软件，而这些软件可以和微软其他流行的软件一样合适用户的电脑。而微软公司自己则在一份申明中称这次的罚金是关于一件已经解决的案件。
