Microsoft has appealed against $1.4 Billion fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour. The fine which is the largest ever given by the European Commission was given to the company after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its market position.

The ruling said that Microsoft was guilty of not providing key code to rival software makers.

The fines came on top of earlier fines of 280m euros imposed in July 2006, and of 497m euros in March 2004, with the 2004 investigation concluding that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in products including media players as well as unfairly linking its Internet Explorer browser to its Windows operating system at the expense of rivals. See our previous coverage (here)

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