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Microsoft Defies EU Commission

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sure-it-is dept.

otahkgeek writes "Wired News is reporting that Microsoft claims that by removing Windows Media Player from Windows, it would be forced to ship a substandard version to European consumers. This is on the heels of a three-day hearing by a European commission to determine the validity of charges that Microsoft illegally abused its power over the home computer market."

13 of 872 comments (clear)

  1. First POST! by RumpRoast · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dawg!

    --

    My Ass hurts.
  2. lalla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lalala

  3. Article on AOL News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AOL News is doing a follow-up article

    Click Here to see it

  4. DON'T CLICK THE ABOVE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't click!

  5. TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is the troll going around calling any link a "bad link" in order to get posts moderated down.

  6. BECAUSE THE LINK POINTS TO penisfish.jpg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Trust me. http://members.aol.com/evank40767/penisfish.jpg

  7. fish sex link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, seriously, non-perverts should NOT click the link. It's a picture of some guy putting his wang in a fish's mouth.

    Also, this may be the penisfish, but where is the penisbird?

  8. LIAR!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are you posting a penishfish link?

    Are you some SICK FREAK? No one wants your damned penisfish links, so please DONT POST IT.

  9. MUST BE A TYPO THEN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just see a regular AOL news page. You see what you want to see.

  10. REDUNDANT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you fucking stupid? Several posts in the same thread were posted about this BEFORE YOU OPENED YOUR FILTHLY TRAP.

    Queer.

  11. How to stop MS by thinkliberty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We need a new software program that does the following the following for MS Windows:

    Removes IE and outlook express then installs Mozilla
    Removes WMP then installs Winamp
    Removes wordpad then installs Open Office
    Removes paint and imaging and installs Gimp

    Then change the desktop to look alot like kde, this would help people move over to linux.
    (Popup ads and banners could say "Your software sucks, UPGRADE to open source today!")

    On the next release of windows, Website that support Linux and the FSF, OSI etc... could release web advertisments with the motto: "don't waste 300 dollars on the new Windows, download for Linux free or buy Linux for the cost of the CD."

  12. Re:Good News by ShadowRage · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why did this get modded troll?

  13. Re:Who cares by Ugot2BkidNme · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I completely disagree with you comparitive to Real, Quicktime and Winamp, Windows Media player is far better in interface and playback of all video formats they play.
    However Audio I would say winamp definatly is better. but I have to say Windows media player is second.