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MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio
renard writes: "Some interesting developments during the last two days of the Microsoft antitrust trial, as reported by AP: MS Executive Linda Averett has admitted that Internet Explorer trumps user preferences for audio playback, and explains away a failure of IE6 searches to find RealAudio sites as a "mistake by the search team." My personal favorite: an MS-internal email exchange where one employee suggests that everyone "Remember the 'embrace and extend' campaigns we've used in the past," and an MS executive admonishes that "We need to keep all of this off the airwaves." See also related stories at Yahoo, CNN, and the NYT."
Then go back to Windows95 with IE4. Not a hard descision.
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
There seems to be 2 sides to this arguement. One side hates MS and the other loves it, both sides of course are guilty of being wrong. We need a ruler to measure MS. In this instance they are doing something that is simple in their minds. They are trying to make the user XPerience an easyness in using their computer, "one stop shopping" of the 21st century. Is that wrong? Sure they muscled different companies out of business. Sure they are arrogant jerks who just want to make money with a good product. Welcome to America!
Here is the another thing, so you want to use Netscape, Opera, or any other webbowser or mediaplayer, or unzipper, or pdf file opener go ahead install it and never, ever click on the IE icon or the Media Player icon, or any other, click on the other one that you lie silly! Really simple stuff man.
We have people trying to make MS give them their barebones version of XP so that they can use it as they please. That is like going to McDonald's and just buying a big bucket of their secret sauce or like getting upset because your Ford Expedition didn't come in Neon green and asking them to sell you an Expedition without any paint on it. Gimme a break, sure they are a big company and "we" do not like that, but let's be fair even to them. Sure, not all of you feel this way, but if you do please think it over!
If you want to mod down go ahead, I have a -3 karma so freedom of speech is no longer up to par with the rest of the world for me.
"Entertain the Brutes"
MS is no worse than any other company in the abuse department. MS just has more to abuse (i.e. a "monopoly in the Windows computer market as of 2 years ago).
--something witty
Oh, so does that mean future versions of Windows will Embrace Open Source/Linux, and Extend support of Windows Programs so that other OSes can run them?
In the words of Young Darth Vader, "Yippie!"
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Hey, mod me down like the previous two posts too so you can prove what a great Microsoft supporter you are! Fight for that poor ole misunderstood multi-billion dollar corporation! Only you can save it here on Slashdot!!!