The European Commission has ratified the fine it had imposed on the American company Microsoft in 2004. The penalty amounted to a figure of 497 million euros.

The fine was imposed because the company of Bill Gates presented a monopoly of the PC market. Its operating system is present in most computers in the world, driving out other competitors from the market.

This fact can also pass bills to other companies related to computers and the Internet as is the case with Google and that Intel has a monopoly on the computer chips.