The EU has to compromise Microsoft

European Commission spokesman (EC) said yesterday that Microsoft will have an additional 20 days to defend itself by accusing the company of selling the necessary information to help develop Windows compatible products for Competitors with exorbitant prices.

Previously, the EC set a deadline on April 3, Microsoft to answer the above problem and threaten to raise the daily penalty to $ 4 million if the world's No. 1 software company fails to fully comply with the requirement.

Microsoft claims they need more time to get a full answer to this very complicated issue.

Under the ruling of the 2004 antitrust lawsuit, the European Union asked Microsoft to share the standard source code communicating with competitors to help them develop more compatible products with the Windows operating system. .

On March 1, the EU announced that Microsoft had not made any moves to fully implement the decision and accused Microsoft of selling such information at exorbitant prices.

Responding to the threat, Microsoft declared that the EU's punishment for the company was unprecedented and it would affect the EU's efforts to become a highly competitive high-tech economy. But soon after, Microsoft signed a number of license agreements to use source code in accordance with EU requirements.

Microsoft is also facing a penalty of $ 317 million announced in July last year just because it did not provide the required information to competitors.

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