The European Commission has "strong doubts" that Microsoft is obeying an order issued a year ago in a landmark antitrust ruling against the company, a commission spokesman, Jonathan Todd, said Thursday.
It plans to discuss its concerns with Microsoft, and could impose fines up to 5 percent of daily worldwide sales until it decides that the company is complying.
In the case, the largest antitrust action ever brought in Europe, the commission found that Microsoft broke European Union law by using a "near monopoly" in its Windows operating system to squeeze out rivals in other kinds of software.
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