Microsoft: The Next Investigations

Runt-Abu writes: "Some of the UK's top companies (and some of the not-so-top as well but hey...) are questioning Microsoft's policy on pricing. In an open letter to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry several of the top companies voiced concern at the cost of an extra £880m over a typical four-year investment cycle. No one from Microsoft has commented at this time, given the current state of affairs it's highly likely many companies will not upgrade or seek alternative cheaper solutions." Basically, a large trade group is asking the British Office of Fair Trading (akin to the FTC in the U.S.) to investigate Microsoft's price increases. And Gogl writes: "It appears the attorneys general of 6 more states have voiced concern over Microsoft, particularly regarding the upcoming release of Windows XP. Microsoft and their allies claim that AOL-Time Warner was behind this, which AOL of course denies," pointing also to this piece on Microsoft's changing licensing costs.

Comments

FYI

[NMerriam]

Just for interest: the plural of "attorney general" is "attorneys general", not "attorney generals". The latter would be, I suppose, multiple military commanders with law degrees...

Re:Let me get this straight...

[Anml4ixoye]

Ok, and?

Do you expect us to not move on with out lives? To sit and tremble at every passing plane? To ogle at everyone who doesn't quite look like us? To dig shelters, build weapons, etc, etc?

Get real. Some of us would like to take a break from what we are seeing. Just because there are other discussions going on does *NOT* mean that we have forgotten what happened. We are simply trying to move on with our lives so that we can function, and not let the terrorists win.

Maybe you were trying to be crass with the MS comment, but I am tired of hearing comments like the first ones you mentioned. Let us not forgot, but please let us move on so we can function.

Troll alert !!

[AftanGustur]

Yes kiddies, this is what a troll looks like ...
Darn,, where are those mod points when you realy need them ......

Re:Saaaweeet!

[ZaneMcAuley]

Is it possible to have a negative Karma rating?

Dammit I hate the MS optical mouse twitch, now it went and made me hit the submit button :D