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EU to Microsoft: meet deadline or face sanctions

[JURIST] The European Union [official website] has given software giant Microsoft until the end of May to comply with its antitrust order [Microsoft's implementation plan for the agreement] or face punitive sanctions, officials for both organizations said Monday. The dispute is due mostly to what regulators see as Microsoft's lack of cooperation in providing server software source codes to competitors and whether the Windows package they were forced to produce is up to standard. The EU has the power to fine Microsoft up to five percent of it daily sales globally but Microsoft said it continues to work with the EU towards a goal of full compliance. AP has more.

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Pope Urban II sparks First Crusade

Pope Urban II threw his support behind what would become the First Crusade on November 27, 1095 during the Council of Clairmont. The Pope urged the council's participants to render aid to the Byzantine Empire, which was being attacked by the Seljuks. Pope Urban called for a wide coalition of rich and poor to combat the threat, which eventually resulted in the conquest of much of the Muslim-controlled Levant by the Crusaders and the establishment of the Crusader States. Read Pope Urban's address.  

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