"Software giant Microsoft has been ordered by a US court to pay out more than half a billion dollars for breaching a patent with its Internet Explorer web browser.
A Chicago jury found that the part of Explorer designed to enable extra functions through 'plug-ins' - add-on programs - infringed patents held by a small Chicago company and the University of California.
The jury ruled that the two should be paid $1.47 for every copy of Windows, Microsoft's computer operating system, sold between 1997 and 2001 - which makes the total fine $520.6m (£324m).
Microsoft said it was disappointed by the decision, and that it planned to appeal."
ieXbeta.com - Microsoft ordered to pay $520m
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