Microsoft Set to Face Possible EU Fines on Browser Violation

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Microsoft Corp. faces possible European Union fines as soon as next month over its failure to comply with a settlement to give users a choice of web browsers.

Regulators are close to a decision which would be “one of the first in 2013,” Joaquin Almunia, the EU’s antitrust chief, told reporters at a European Commission press conference in Brussels today.