Microsoft is to be fined a record € 497 million ( $ 613 million) by the European Commission as punishment for abusing its Windows monopoly, according to reports ahead of a key meeting by EU Commissioners on Wednesday. (Financial Times)
commissioners, after receiving a letter from state attorney general Hardy Myers , reverse their earlier vote to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples this Wednesday. But, stating they will observe the principal of equal treatment under the law, the commissioners decide that the county will stop issuing ''any'' marriage licenses until the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of the law. (Oregonian)(Register-Guard)