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A week earlier, an appeals court in America heard arguments by the state of Massachusetts and two trade groups that the punishments imposed on Microsoft last year fail to protect consumers from further anti-competitive behaviour.Both cases spring from the belief that Microsoft has faced penalties, but not remedies.
If those states prevail, however, it could lead to more restrictions imposed on Microsoft.
The trustees have not yet been appointed and the remedies the commission imposed on Microsoft a year ago have still not taken effect.
They said they were uncertain how they would proceed and whether they would be able to get any tougher restrictions imposed on Microsoft.
See articleThe muscle from BrusselsThe European Commission's competition regulator fined Intel €1.06 billion ($1.44 billion), a European record and more than twice the amount it imposed on Microsoft in an antitrust ruling in 2004.
But there remains hope for a deal that would spare Google the arduous court orders and huge fines once imposed on Microsoft, another U.S. technology titan that ran afoul of European competition laws more than a decade ago.
The company also tried to argue that the case was not important enough to warrant direct review, even though in a previous brief Microsoft said the remedy imposed on the company "could have a significant adverse impact on the nation's economy".
Brussels also hit Microsoft with a fine of 497 million euros ($603 million), the largest it ever imposed on a single company in an antitrust case.
D3 BUSINESS DAY C1-24 A Reprieve for Microsoft The trial judge in the Microsoft antitrust case issued an order delaying the sweeping restrictions on company conduct that he imposed on June 7, pending a higher court's decision on the restrictions.
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