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The Reuters’ headline says it all - EU court crushes Microsoft’s antitrust appeal:

Microsoft suffered a stunning defeat on Monday when a European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that the U.S. software giant illegally abused its market power to crush competitors.

The European Union’s second-highest court dismissed the company’s appeal on all substantive points of the 2004 antitrust ruling.

The court threw out just one small part of the European Commission’s ruling which allowed the independent monitoring trustee access to Microsoft employees, premises and documents independent of the Commission. Microsoft also gets to pay 80% of the Commissions’s legal expenses.

So what’s next?

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