GLOBAL computer software giant, Microsoft, has been found guilty of abusing its dominant market position by freezing out competitors and must pay a record fine of €497 million as a result, the European Court in Luxembourg has found.

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.