"It's not over until after the furniture is sold and the former employees fined as well." --iophk Microsoft, based on this new report, gets away with competition crimes again, appeasing people who lost from this behaviour, having just come up with the "antitrust compliance office" PR. To quote IDG : "Microsoft on Friday told shareholders that it has settled a lawsuit brought last year against former CEOs Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, the company's board of directors and other top executives over a $732 million fine that European Union antitrust regulators slapped on the firm in 2013. "As part of the settlement, Microsoft will set aside $42.5 million to fund an antitrust compliance office for the next five years, and pay the plaintiffs' lawyers at least $7.3 million, according to court documents and a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)." Here is a good part of the article, serving to show Microsoft's rather unique attitude: