14 DAY TRIAL // The EU antitrust investigators will make a decision very soon on Microsoft’s failure to provide European users with a browser choice screen.
The European Union Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the antitrust body is still reviewing the case, but a decision is very likely to be announced anytime soon.
“I want to take a decision as soon as possible,” he said according to MarketWatch.
It’s not yet clear whether Microsoft may indeed receive a fine, but Almunia previously said that the European Commission takes this kind of cases seriously, so the Redmond-based technology company might have to pay.
Microsoft was fined $2.14 billion / €1.64 billion in 2009 after one of the longest antitrust cases on the Old Continent.
The case commenced in 1998 and came to an end approximately ten years later when the European Commission’s competition watchdog decided that Microsoft broke the antitrust regulations with its Windows operating system.