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MS May Be Forced To Sell Stripped-Down OS In EU

Posted by timothy on from the hey-those-are-still-tlas dept.

An anonymous reader submits "According to this article at Infoworld, Microsoft may be forced to sell a stripped-down version of Windows in the EU as a result of antitrust rulings, unless a settlement is reached during the next month to six weeks." (See this post from last week for more background on the EU's antitrust proceedings.)

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  1. Re:On the same note.... by cujo_1111 · · Score: 5, Informative

    More to the point, you can get Quicktime for Windows but you can't get WMP for Mac.

    Yes, you can...

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  2. Re:On the same note.... by ZeeTeeKiwi · · Score: 5, Informative
    MSIE, a free web browser, vs Netscape/Mozilla, a free web browser.

    But MSIE is not free, in either the libre or gratis sense. MS is on record the IE costs them over USD100M per year and the cost of that is built into the cost of the OS. Win XP should be $40 per pc cheaper, and then the user can be be free (libre) to choose whether they want MS media player or not.