Now let's see why it's stupid. The fine was for this:
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European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti ruled that Microsoft had failed to provide to rivals information that they needed to compete fairly in the market for server software and that the company has been offering Windows on the condition that it come bundled with Windows Media Player, stifling competition.
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For not giving info on their server stuff: That's closed source software. And the other thing, why the hell can't a company that makes a desktop environment include everything it wants in it? Why wouldn't it be fair to have this included? Do other companies offer better software? The only thing that is better than WMP I used is WinAmp but especially quicktime, realplayer etc. should zip it and create good software. I'd call creating a less used and less popular music format and then complain it's unfair M$ has a program that plays the popular formats. That M$ would include other company's software in the install didn't help them which is why I think the EU is just trying to be annoying.