Key dates in EU antitrust action against Microsoft

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. €561 million ($733 million) for failing to live up to the terms of a settlement that was to end the company’s 15-year run-in with the continent’s competition regulators.

Here’s a look at how a 1998 complaint by Sun Microsystems led to Microsoft receiving fines totaling €2.2 billion — $2.9 billion at today’s exchange rates.