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EU Expands Microsoft Inquiry

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the remember-GE-and-Honeywell dept.

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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  1. Re:What about AOL? RED HERRING! by cybrthng · · Score: 2, Troll

    AOL is on every PC.

    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 .. "just in case you need it".

    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!