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The
following are events in Microsoft's relationship with EU
antitrust regulators and ongoing investigations into its other
businesses:
1998 - The European Commission opens an investigation into
Microsoft over interoperability issues, after a complaint from
Sun Microsystems.
2000 - The Commission begins investigating the tying of
Microsoft's Media Player with its operating system.
2004 - Regulators impose a 497 million euro ($533 million) fine
on Microsoft for not making data available to rivals and for
tying Media Player to its operating system.
2006 - The Commission levies an additional 280.5 million euro
fine for Microsoft's failure to comply with the 2004 EU order to
provide data to rivals.
2008 - Regulators open two new investigations, one into
interoperability issues, and a second into browser choice.
2008 - The Commission imposes an 899 million euro fine, its
second additional penalty, after Microsoft again fails to comply
with the 2004 EU order.
2009 - Microsoft settles the 2008 investigation into browser
choice with an offer to allow access to rival products.
2012 - Europe's second highest court reduces the 2008 fine to
860 million euros from 899 million euros, on appeal by
Microsoft.
2013 - Competition regulators impose a 561 million euro fine for
not complying with the 2009 promise on web browser choice.
2020 - Salesforce-owned Slack complains to the EU about Micrsoft
bundling its chat and video app Teams with its Office product.
2022 - The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE)
which counts Amazon as a member, complains to the Commission
regarding Microsoft's cloud computing practices.
2023 - German rival Alfaview complains to the EU watchdog about
the bundled Teams and Office package sold to educational
institutions, leading to regulators opening an investigation.
2024 - EU seeks feedback from rivals and users about its
security software practices.
2024 - Microsoft in talks to resolve antitrust complaint by the
Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) which
counts Amazon as a member.
Sources: European Commission, Microsoft
($1 = 0.9324 euros)
(Compiled by Foo Yun Chee; editing by Barbara Lewis)
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