EU receives new antitrust documentation from Microsoft

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Microsoft has met today's deadline for the submission of revised documentation on server interoperability, the European Commission has confirmed.

Potential licensees of the server technology detailed will now evaluate whether the latest documentation contains the necessary information to allow the development of work group server operating system products that are fully interoperable with Microsoft software.

The independent Monitoring Trustee, Professor Neil Barrett will also test the documentation in order to verify its accuracy and the commission will decide in due course whether or not Microsoft is in compliance with the requirements of the EU's March 2004 Decision: that it provides complete and accurate technical documentation on server interface information and make that information available to licensees at a reasonable and non-discriminatory price.

Should Microsoft have failed to meet the these requirements then the commission will be free to impose daily fines of €3 million, back-dated to 31 July 2006. The potential fine was increased from €2 million after documentation that Microsoft submitted in July was deemed to fall short of the commission's requirements.

Microsoft described that the latest submission as an important milestone.

'The trustee and Microsoft have now completed the technical review and edits to the more than 100 documents, totaling 8,500 pages, that we submitted in July of this year, in accordance with the deadline established by the commission,' the company said in a statement. 'We will continue to work closely with the commission and the trustee to ensure that we are in full compliance with every aspect of the commission's decision.'

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