MS fined by fax

NTK -- Microsoft received news of its EUR 497m bill for Windows Media Player by fax, prompting Need to Know to speculate that "attempts to send it by Outlook mysteriously bounced. The company spent a few minutes with the currency calculator before chucking it in the 'due to pay after five years of appeals' folder. Funnily enough, Gates spoke last month about trying to find a way of reducing the $52.8bn of cash that the company currently sits on."

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via Dave Green and Forbes
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