• Reuters, Monday, October 22, 2007 11:30 AM

Microsoft this morning finally agreed to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission. Among other things, it will make available to so-called "open source" software developers information they need to make their programs work smoothly with Microsoft's Windows operating system for personal computers. Microsoft has also sliced high royalties for that interoperability information, the Commission says.

The defeated software giant announced it would not appeal against a decisive European Union court ruling two months ago that backed the Commission.

"As from today, Microsoft has established compliance, no doubt about that," says EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. But she left open the possibility it could face fines for its lack of compliance between 2006 and now.

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