Microsoft alleges EU collusion with rival countries
Microsoft Corp filed a formal complaint with EU antitrust regulators today, alleging the European Commission withheld documents and secretly colluded with rival companies and an independent monitor shortly before the EU charged the Microsoft had not obeyed an earlier ruling.
The EU said it had no immediate comment on the content or admissibility of what it called Microsoft’s “supplementary response” to last December’s charges. It said it would decide after a March 30 or 31 hearing if it would levy £1.4m (€2.1m) in daily fines against the company for not doing enough to provide competitors with the information needed to make their software work with Microsoft servers.
