Microsoft was handed its greatest legal defeat to date Wednesday when the European Commission not only declared the software company an abusive monopolist, as the U.S. government did in 2000, but levied penalties designed to prevent similar abuses in the future. The ruling, anticipated for more than a week, orders Microsoft to sell two versions of its Windows operating system to manufacturers of personal computers such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba and Fujitsu Siemens. One of those versions must be sold without
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