The European Commission of the European Union (EC) found that Microsoft broke competition law by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for media players. The EC also found that Microsoft abused its dominant market position with regard to its Windows operating system. The EC ordered Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without Windows Media Player and to provide the information necessary for competing networking software to interact fully with Windows desktops and servers. Between 2003 and 2013, the EC fined Microsoft a total of approximately $3.4 billion for various non-compliance issues.