Windows Could Lose Media Player in Europe?

Chris Gondek writes "If Microsoft cannot settle an antitrust case brought by European Union regulators, the company may be ordered to remove Windows Media Player as an integrated feature of the dominant Windows operating system, at least for personal computers sold in Europe. The European Commission also could order Microsoft to include rival media players with Windows to make those products as easy for users to access as Microsoft's own music and video player."

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capatalism on its death bed

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux has no trouble with bundled software. The only reason Microsoft has trouble is because they are trying to live in the future and the past at the same time. Linux has left the past (capatalism) behind it.

Re:Better hold on to it...

[Anonymous Coward]

c'mon people. funny. this is funny.

That's fucking retarded.

[Anonymous Coward]

Now, I'm a FreeBSD user so I say this without bias; If that's the case then no operatingsystem shoudl be able to include ANY software.

European agenda?

[Anonymous Coward]

What do a bunch of smelly Europeans need Media Player for, anyways? They are too busy peeing in the street and combing the fleas out of their armpit hair.

Hmm... I'd better post this anonymously.

Re:You've gotta love the hyprocrisy of Europe

[Anonymous Coward]

How exactly is this flamebait? Oh.. I see... it's anti-offshoring and anti-giveaway(or "free")trade. It IS flamebait for the slashbots.. NEVERMIND!

I'm not a NIGGER or FAGGOT can I join GNAA?

[CreamOfWheat]

please let me know

Re:And how is Macintosh any different?

[Mitleid]

So, Apple is not a monopoly, therefore they can do whatever underhanded shit Microsoft does and get away with it because 'Hey, they're the hip underdog!'?

If you consider Apple to make a superior product, fine. I'm not arguing with you. I'm glad you're happy with your purchase. But please, you make a value judgement like this in the same breath you criticize Microsoft:

Apple is not not a monopoly and therefore does not have to abide by the same rules as Microsoft

Try practicing what you preach, already. If the tables were turned, and Apple had the same quality product but the market share that MS does, would that be OK? If you're going to throw out words like monopoly left and right, don't use the fuzzy logic demonstrated in the quote above. It just gives Apple users a bad name. Though I think Apple makes a great product and I'm sure I'd love using one, the user base mentality that is so often demonstrated by people like yourself drives me away every time. It sickens me... It's a completely manufactured "clique" on behalf of Apple, and I'd much prefer to buy my computer based on what I want to do with it rather than getting one to be a member of a "subculture".

you know what?

[Richthofen80]

I hope that microsoft stops selling windows in Europe. Period. I'd tell them that if the software they make is so bad, they don't have to have it. I would refuse to do business in a nation that would force me to make a product a certain way (aside from safety concerns).

Europe would be on its knees without the software. they'd turn around in a second.