Microsoft still hopes to settle with EC, exec says

Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. still hopes to settle with the European Commission over the sanctions ordered against it to correct its anticompetitive behavior, even as its appeal of the case winds its way through the legal channels, a senior company executive said Monday.

"We definitely want to settle. We just said it in court and I’ll say it again," Jean-Philippe Courtois, Microsoft’s chief executive officer (CEO) for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), said at the Etre technology conference in Cannes.

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