European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a “large fine” Wednesday for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a browser ballot, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
According to the newspaper, the European Commission is expected to announce fines tomorrow in the eight-month-old investigation into Microsoft’s omission of a browser choice screen.
Tuesday’s report added to a drumbeat of looming penalties, first sounded last week by the Reuters news service, which said that European officials would impose a fine before the end of March.
The browser ballot was the result of a deal Microsoft struck with the Commission in late 2009 after officials fielded a complaint from Norwegian browser maker Opera Software. Opera accused Microsoft of manipulating the battle for browser share by tying Internet Explorer (IE) to Windows.
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