Microsoft will have to offer a version of Windows without a bundled media player while its appeal against the EU makes its way through the courts.
The European Commission will not make a decision on whether Microsoft has complied with its antitrust ruling until September, an EC spokesman said on Friday.
Aiming to portray itself as the victim of overreaching regulators, Microsoft on Wednesday released a position paper insisting that the European Union's antitrust sanctions amount to "new law" that could hurt others in the technology industry.
Antitrust regulators from the European Union's 25 countries voted unanimously on Monday to levy new daily fines on Microsoft for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said.
Microsoft plans to ask a European court in the next few days for an emergency order blocking a ruling imposed in March that levied a heavy fine and required that Windows be offered without a media player.
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