Microsoft faces Monopoly Lawsuit (again)

james_in_denver writes "Forbes magazine is reporting that Microsoft will be sued in California for predatory pricing. This lawsuit appears to differ from earlier challenges to MicroSoft's marketplace dominance by entertaining the possibility of a Class-Action lawsuit. This would allow individual users/licensee's to participate in the lawsuit. A notable quote from the full text states: "It's anticompetitive, it's predatory, and it denies consumers, and in this case taxpayers, the benefits of innovation that a free marketplace should provide,""

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We knew it was Microsoft when we bought it.

[billstewart]

Linux is free, and *BSD is free, and if you don't like Unixes, there's always Macintosh, and if you can't get Macintosh software on the cheap hardware you own, blame Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates. If I've bought Windows, it's because it came with something I wanted that made it worth putting up with Windows.

I've used various kinds of Unix for 25+ years, and I confess that, yes, I'm writing this on a Windows machine (belongs to work) and my home machine is also running XP (supports TurboTax) most of the time and Linux sometimes, and my mother-in-law's machine is running XP (supports AOL, and at least it's cleaner than Windows ME was.) I knew the XP disk had Windows on it when I bought it. It wasn't a Surprise. It was annoying to have to pay Bill Gates yet another $100 to get it, but the alternative was trying to get Windows ME re-installed, which had been supposed to fix up the Win98SE problems, which were supposed to fix the Win98 problems. I think the old PC came with Win95, but maybe Win98; I reinstalled enough times over the years that I've forgotten now. I don't remember if the 386 box ever ran Win95 or if it was only Win3.1 and DOS...