Of course, such decisions require strict compliance. "Legally binding commitments reached in antitrust decisions play a very important role in our enforcement policy because they allow for rapid solutions to competition problems. Microsoft acknowledged last July that the browser choice screen was left off a swath of PCs.ĮC competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement that the EC’s patience has run out: The EC brought up the fact that Microsoft failed to roll out the browser choice screen with its Windows 7 Service Pack 1 from May 2011 until July 2012, thereby depriving 15 million Windows users in the European Union from seeing the choice screen. Microsoft was hit by the stiff fine for failing to comply with its commitments to offer Windows users a screen that would allow them to easily choose from a list of web browsers. On Wednesday, the European Commission slapped Microsoft with a €561 million fine ($731m, £484m).
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