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Old July 23rd, 2016, 09:58 AM   #1118
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Originally Posted by RowanMooreFan View Post
Microsoft (Google isn't any better) has been attacked by the EU many a time. The only question up to this day: have they already paid one single EUR of the multitude of fines they have gathered since then? I don't know. Maybe someone can help me out. Europe is a very small dog that barks a lot and continuously fools its population into believing they have a saying on the international forum. They have not. They have to listen most carefully and are bathing in fear for the US. The US rule the world everywhere and they fool their population into believing they are not, but they are.

Over here people have entirely lost faith in politicians.
Yes, Microsoft has paid the EU fine. After the initial judgement, MS deposited $600M in an escrow account pending an appeal. They lost the appeal and the fine was increased. They appealed that and it was upheld with a small reduction in the fine to €860M which has been paid.
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