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European Union antitrust enforcers have slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker appeared to have won last year LONDON -- European Union antitrust enforcers slapped Intel on Friday with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker appeared to have won last year. The European Commission imposed the 376.4 million -euro fine after a court threw out an original 1.06 billion-euro penalty issued in 2009 over allegations that the Santa Clara, California-based company used illegal sales tactics to shut out smaller rival AMD. The commission, the 27-nation bloc's top antitrust watchdog, accused Intel of abusing its dominant position in the global market for x86 microprocessors with a strategy to exclude rivals by using rebates and sales restrictions. The EU’s General Court last year annulled the original decision, saying that the commission's analysis of the rebates didn't meet legal standards. H...

Microsoft has announced it’s shutting down a long-running app after almost 30 years. The tech giant this week shared it had stopped updating the WordPad app, and it would not be included in any future release of Windows. “WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows,” Microsoft said in a blog post. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> “We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt.” The basic writing app was introduced with Windows 95 in the mid-1990s, offering basic editing functions and the ability to add images and Excel spreadsheets. Microsoft has announced it’s shutting down a long-running writing app after almost 30 years . Credit: Drew Angerer / Getty Images But it lacks many functions that are available in Microsoft Word, including spell checking or word counts. It also hasn’t been updated with any new functions since t...