EU judges asked to toss out record fine against Microsoft

Microsoft said the record antitrust fine levied against it in 2004 should be tossed out, or at least greatly reduced, because the punishment outweighed the infraction, the company’s lawyers said in Luxembourg today.

The European Commission ruled that the world’s largest software company had to pay a record €497m fine, share information with rivals and produce a version of its Windows operating system without Media Player software.