Microsoft are 280m euros lighter

Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling.

Ouch! I wonder who the Commission gives the money raised by this fine to? It ought to go to the Open Source community but it probably goes on Champaigne and Caviar! I wonder if there was any real way in which Microsoft could have avoided this fine? Probably not.