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EU Expands Microsoft Inquiry
Space cowboy writes "The European Commission is expanding its investigation into whether Microsoft has engaged in anti-competitive practices - now it's not just the browser bundling, but also bundling of audio-visual components (such as Windows Media Player). " There's also a Reuters report - what is worth noting, tho', is that the basis for this investigation is in the market for small servers - *not* the desktop market, from what I can see/read.
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... ever tells me what features I must include or exclude from my product,
I WILL KICK HIS ARSE*.
* "Ass" to you Yanks.
AOL is on every PC.
.. "just in case you need it".
You rent a movie from Blockbuster you get AOL CD's.
You goto the movies and you see AOL/TimeWarner and hear You got mail subliminal messages.
You turn on the nighly news and tons of AOL thrown at you.
I have yet to see MSNBC push MS that much, microsoft doesn't ruin the movies i rent with a bunch of adverts or anything.
Microsoft doesn't put crap in every magazine i read.
AOL by far causes me more HARM and the environment MORE HARM then 10,000 microsoft's put together.
And yes, you buy a PC from Dell, IBM or anyone for that matter and it COMES WITH AOL.. you like it or not. When you uninstall it as well it just removes the icons and leaves the programs
On the other hand YOU can make a choice and buy a PC with Linux on it now can't you? Microsoft doesn't stop that.. But people sue microsoft so they can bloat the OS with there crap.
what a world we live in!
Again, you don't have to buy a PC with windows on it, so how is microsoft any worse? As far as i know since computers have evolved there has always been a choice of operating systems and hardware from Sun to Apple to Amiga to Commodore to IBM to AIX to OS/2 to Whatever Unix you want to Geos to DOS to Novell to PC DOS to MSDOS.
So now that Redhat includes a CD Recording program, Image editing, Multimedia and tons of other crap for FREE isn't that putting all the other developers at a disadvantage?
Atleat microsoft pays its employees, buys up the companies it utilizes and backs the product with stable releases.
Hell, redhat or any linux runs great if you just run linux crap included. But when you try and Run Oracle 8.1.7 or Try running Jbuilder or J2see stuff from sun or Star Office or *ANY* commercial program it is specific to kernerl X, GLIBC Y, release Z. Last time i checked something written for NT works under 2k and XP and well. i give up. You guys are hard headed!
Actually for the cost of Windows ME you got better multimedia, a video recoding package and seevral other enhancements.
If you feel this way about microsoft, then you most certainly wouldn't dare to support a commercial distro of linux since fear not, it is merely a repackged upgrade of something you get for free already.
Someone has to make money, someone has to push technology and someone has to provide timely products, enhancements and versions.
sure, windows me sucked, but so did redhat 6.0, caldera linux 3.0, suse, 7.0, Mandrake 7.0...
the list goes on and on. After all the crappy linux distro's ive spent my time and money on i'd say the few bucks on microsoft windows and OS/2 has more then paid off.
Your playing ignorant to the problem as well. You quote a simple fix for the Linux problem when it is just as simple of a fix for the NT problem.
Test blah.. blahh. fix.. blaah blahh.. test again.. blahh blahh.. production.
each have there own merits and were off topic now from including software to how to fix problems.