Microsoft Faces Fresh Antitrust Complaints

Rob wrote to mention a Computer Business Online review piece about new anti-trust action against Microsoft on both sides of the Atlantic. From the article: "Other examples of anticompetitive behavior cited by Tangent include bundling of Outlook with Office and Active Directory with Windows Server, as well as the bundling of Windows Media Player and Windows Media Server with its desktop and server operating system respectively. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment on Tangent's complaint, other than to acknowledge that it was being reviewed, but was more forthcoming in responding to a fresh complaint lodged with the European Commission by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS)."

Comments

newsflash!

[tomstdenis]

Stop bundling shit with your OS. Sell the OS and separately the add-ons.

Christ almighty is it really that fucking hard?

For the record I think any other OS (e.g. SUSE or Redhat) that aligns with one technology or another (e.g. mysql or gnome or ...) should de-bundle as well. At least most distros (debian, gentoo, ...) are neutral and allow the USER to CHOOSE what they want to use.

But seriously MSFT execs just don't fucking get it. This isn't 1989 ... you can't just bundle more and more with the OS and hope nobody notices in the name of the almighty dollar.

Tom