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"&lt;em&gt;from the desk of IEEE Spectrum contributor Morgen Peck&lt;/em&gt;\n\nEurope\u00E2''s second highest court has upheld a 2004 antitrust ruling &lt;a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/technology/17cnd-subsoft.html?hp\"&gt;against&lt;/a&gt; Microsoft with a sentence carrying a fine of 497.2 million euros, the equivalent of US$689.4 million.  In addition, the company must change some policies which the courts have argued aggressively stultify competition and undermine consumer rights. \n\nIn the past, Microsoft has packaged Media Player software into its operating system instead of giving buyers a choice of software, a practice the company has revised during its protracted court battle.  But, Microsoft will take its biggest blow in the way it handles &amp;hellip;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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