Decision looms in Microsoft-EU row

The long-running dispute between Microsoft and the European Union will finally be decided on Monday.

Three years ago, the European Union issued an anti-trust ruling against Microsoft for what it said was an illegal abuse of Microsoft's near-monopoly in the computer operating system market.

It ordered the company to change its business practices.

It also imposed the highest fine in European history - almost half-a-billion euros.

On Monday morning, Europe's second-highest court will deliver a ruling that could shape the rules of competition law in the bloc for decades to come.

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