Microsoft and EU face off over antitrust issues

Microsoft was today set to argue that the very way it, and other companies, do business is at stake when it goes before the EU’s second highest court in a bid to overturn a recording antitrust ruling levied against it two years ago.

In 2004, the Redmond, Washing-based company was fined a record €497m after the European Commission found Microsoft guilty of breaking the antitrust rules that govern fair play in business.