Microsoft to pay for its sins

The Register is reporting that should Microsoft Corp. continue to fail to comply with the remedies imposed upon it by the European Court of Justice it could find itself having to pay a $5 million a day fine.

$5 million a day sounds like a lot but when you remembebr that Microsoft's cash and cash equivalent stash was reported to be around $40 billion (we're not talking market capitalisation here, rather what they have lying around on their bankaccounts), they can hold out for 8000 days. That comes out to just short of 22 years...