Storm Brewing over Microsoft on the Horizon?

SexyFingers writes "Robert X. Cringely, of I, Cringely discusses one of the last anti-trust lawsuit beleaguering Microsoft. It seems like Microsoft is looking bad on these bouts... words like, lie, dissemble, ignores were applied to Microsoft."

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Re:in Soviet Russia...

[gnuLNX]

Since I have not moderator points I will fake a moderation:

DORK -10

Quit with the dumbass soviet rossia jokes already. Sheesh

Re:Nothing will change.

[JohnTheFisherman]

A few things:

BeOS was really killed by Apple, not MS. Porting BeOS to x86 was their last dying grasp at surviving after Apple shut them out of every Apple trade show and developer's convention that they could. They even tried their own PPC hardware before they went up against MS on x86.

iTunes and Quicktime are garbage on the PC. They're absolutely terrible. Play the same video on VLC, WMP, Real, and QT, and the QT one practically grinds the system to a halt, and often stutters, when the other ones play smoothly. It has 2-3x the processor loading of any other of those media players. iTunes is a similar resource hog just for playing music.

They ignore all interface paradigms and standards on the Windows platform to boot, from looks to window resizing to mouse behavior. Speaking of 'boot,' that system boot crippling feature of iTunes was a dandy, wasn't it? Apple's Windows software QA department asleep on the job, as always.