internetheaven - 7:11 pm on Feb 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

after all this effort they are just going to let them off the hook.

Your definition of "effort" is quite low. Did you mean "after spending this amount of money on consultations, conferences in the bahamas, hiring their drop-out nephews as researchers and loads of expense account dinners" are they going to let microsoft get away with not footing the bill?

It will make things easier next time as Microsoft will know that the EU has no teeth and they free to do whatever they like across the world.

The EU has no teeth. Microsoft are free to do whatever they like across the world.