"The European Commission is preparing a ruling in its antitrust case against Microsoft (Quote, Chart) that will find the software giant guilty of abusing its dominant position in the operating system market, according to reports this morning.
Separately, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has raided Microsoft offices in Tokyo as part of its independent investigation as to whether Microsoft violated that country's antimonopoly law.
In the European case, the Commission will gather in Brussels on March 15 to discuss its decision, which will be made public shortly thereafter. It's expected that Microsoft will be found to have violated European antitrust law by withholding from third parties technical information about how Windows works and by tying its media-player software into the Windows OS."
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