It would be the first time the European Union has punished a company for neglecting to comply with the terms of an antitrust settlement. Microsoft and European antitrust officials reached a settlement over the browser-access issue in 2009. But last October, the Union’s antitrust chief, Joaquín Almunia, charged Microsoft with failing to live up to the agreement.
The amount of the fine could not be learned on Tuesday. Mr. Almunia’s office and Microsoft executives declined to comment. The company had previously emphasized that the failure was a mistake it regretted.
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