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EU Considering Another MS Antitrust Suit
mesozoic writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that the European Union is considering *another* antitrust suit against Microsoft, this time having to do with anticompetitive behavior in the market for mobile phone software. While I haven't seen any signs Microsoft is going to dominate the industry here in the States, cell phones are a much bigger deal in Europe, so I can understand why they'd be nervous."
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Have the litigation-happy Europeans forgotten about a basic legal principle known as double jeopardy? Or are they willing to rewrite the laws willy-nilly for the sole purpose of punishing Microsoft? I dislike Microsoft's predatory business tactics as much as the next man, but they should be afforded the same basic protections of law as anyone else.
Look i don't care how its done, but I'm just happy with M$ getting the message that everyone thinks they suck. Boycotting is good, but lawsuits are better. I say make them spend some of that coin they've got from screwing to customer. I hope the EU takes it all.
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This is fine for competition, except Microsoft has been known to leverage their monopoly power to expand it to other businesses. What gives them the right to prepackage their PocketPC software on other companies' phones? It's absolutely dispicable.
What the EU claims is that Microsoft is using their .NET Passport authentication to tie customers into a spiralling frenzy of tie-ins and products, such as Excel and Age of Empires. More and more of our consumers are being forced into purchasing these telephones and using them to converse with their cohorts while Bill Gates and Co. can listen in on their conversations. These consumer terrorists are forced to browse their email through Microsoft's scrupulous Pocket Outlook for their telephones and MSN Messenger for their SMS replacements.
In short, I just hope that the EU can finally bring down the Micro$oft empire that threatens competition in a market trying to be free. Their behavior is absolutely disgusting and unwarranted in a free market system, which is exactly why the EU must do everything they can to bring them down, because Ashcroft won't.
It would be very good to have 100 different OSs for mobile phones, all operating their own way. Same with PDAs and hell with computers. They can all use the standard protocols to communicate but all have different UIs and ways of doing other things. But then that doesn't make sense I guess. So then is so much difference and competition good?
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