Software giant Microsoft called for EU to hold a crucial hearing later this month to review the anti-monopoly charge filed by EU against it.

Microsoft will be fined for at most two million euros everyday if it can not convince EU that it has complied with the verdict issued in March 2004.

EU ruled that Microsoft abused its leading market role in 2004.

EU has never held public hearings in the past out of concern for the protection of corporate interests and the leakage of business secrets.

By People's Daily Online