Microsoft submit the latest batch of technical information about its Windows operating system to the European Commission antitrust department Thursday , meeting the last in a string of deadline imposed by the governor over the past two age .

Microsoft shout out the entry “ an of import milestone . ” Final edits and technical review of information that the ship’s company submitted antecedently to the regulator , in July , have now also been finish , it added .

“ Now the submission from Microsoft is worth examination , ” said Jonathan Todd , the Commission ’s spokesman , in a telephone interview . “ licensee will be invited to Microsoft ’s headquarters in Redmond to calculate at it . ”

Last calendar week , the Commission ’s antimonopoly chief , Neelie Kroes , expressed growing restlessness with Microsoft when she enforce Thursday ’s deadline , the 24-hour interval of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.

She describe the dossier submit in July as incomplete and warned Microsoft that it confront day-after-day fines of € 3 million ( $ 3.9 million ) , back - date to the end of July , if it did n’t reach over all the proficient information about Windows that it was ordered to let on in a March 2004 antitrust opinion against it .

Microsoft claimed Thursday that it had meet its deadline . “ The Trustee and Microsoft have now completed the technical review and edits to the more than 100 written document , totalling 8,500 pages , that we submitted in July of this year , in accordance with the deadline show by the Commission , ” it read .

It distinguish the compliance of technical documentation in July , and the revision process since then , as “ an unprecedented undertaking involving over 300 locomotive engineer and technical writer at Microsoft . ”

In 2004 Microsoft was find guilty of abuse the prevailing durability of Windows to muscle in on other package markets , including that of server operating systems .

The 2004 ruling ordered Microsoft to reveal enough data about Windows to tolerate rival server software vendor , including Sun Microsystems and Red Hat , to design server products that interoperated as well with Windows PCs as does Microsoft ’s own Windows Server OS .

If the brushup of the information by licensees does not determine that it will permit rival server product to interoperate seamlessly with Windows microcomputer , Microsoft will confront the € 3 million everyday amercement , backdated to July , Todd said .

Microsoft may get fined in any case for the period between the July deadline and Thursday ’s final compliance of information . “ We ’ll take a conclusion about this flow of meter in due course , ” Todd say .