At first i'd like to point out, that Europe didn't fine anyone, since there's no such instance as "Europe" that could fine anyone. It was EU that fined M$.
900 million Euros is a nice pile of money, and in practice this means, that Vista prices are going up.
@Legend: If you didn't read the article, M$ had more than 3 years time to put it in order, so they did have enough time to deal with it.
The fines are usually lowered if certain terms are fulfilled, like in this case.
The reason why "no european company" gets fined that high, is because they fix things after getting warned. In this case, M$ had 120 days to fix things before getting fined. At first the european commission placed a daily fine of 1 million Euros, then it was raised to 2 million and finally to 3 million. Now any european company wouldn't want to keep collecting fines for that long, so the reason for M$ getting fined so much was because they wanted to.
@Food: No, they're charging M$ so much because M$ knows their HQ is walled with gold bricks.
@ssj: Do you happen to know how well 8.4 beta works? Any big issues? I had problems with 7.10 and my laptops graphics card, so i'm hoping 8.4 will have better compatibility.
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