The European Commission fined Microsoft Corp a further 280.5 mln eur for continued non-compliance with a 2004 antitrust ruling. Apparently MS has yet to fufill "obligations to divulge information that allows non-Microsoft work group servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers." While in fact they have already been forced to release source code to competitors (!) and tried to take many other arbitrary actions put forth by the 'trustie' (thug holding the EUs club). They now face a 3 mil eu a day fine starting on July 31 if the commission feels so inclined.

The latestest issue is that Microsoft must create and release technical documentation for their competitors in order to ease their development of interoperable applications. I say why stop there? Anyone who has developed software using someone elses codebase knows that the best resource is often the person who wrote the code or is still working on development for the same project. MS should just provide their talented staff as free consultants to their competitors. Their competitors also can not compete with the size of the development team MS can task to any one project. Perhaps MS should also provide a software team to augment the development of their competitors product. This is absurd.