Microsoft Corp has appealed to EU courts against the European Commission's decision to slap it with a record fine and order changes in the way it sells its Windows software, the company said on Tuesday.
"On Monday, June 7, we filed our appeal against the European Commission's decision with the EU's Court of First Instance, based in Luxembourg," Horacio Gutierrez, associate general counsel, said in a statement.
The Commission in March imposed a fine of 497 million euros ($613 million) on the firm and ordered it to change its business practices.
A spokesman for the company said it would make an additional filing seeking suspension of the remedies imposed by the Commission in the coming days.
Gutierrez said: "The legal standards set by the Commission's decision significantly alter incentives for research and development that are important to global economic growth."
The Commission's 302-page ruling says that its goal is the opposite: to increase competition.
The decision says that Microsoft's tying of its Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system "interferes with the normal competitive process, which would benefit users in terms of quicker cycles of innovation due to unfettered competition on the merits".
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