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Possible Delays for Vista in Europe
tttonyyy writes "After Microsoft was hit with fines for anti-competitive behaviour in 2004 and 2006, it seems that the launch of Vista may be delayed in Europe. Microsoft is blaming this delay on a lack of guidelines from the European Commission. The Commission denies causing any delay, declaring that the impetus is not on them but on Microsoft to produce a product that conforms to the EU competition rules." Further,
The New York Times reports "Delaying the introduction in Europe, [members of the European Parliament] said in a letter made public by Microsoft on Thursday, 'would put European companies at a competitive disadvantage with every other company around the world who does have access to these new technologies.'"
Intuit doesn't make an OS.
Sorry, I think I misunderstood your original point. So the issue is, MS doesn't make a version of the Windows OS that runs on top of a GNU/Linux OS? I thought you were saying they aren't real application (like Office, VS which you originally mentioned) providers because those applications aren't cross platform.
"reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Steven Colbert
If I worked in computer support I'd tell them they wanted Linux too. Nothing like the job security of being able to charge $50 every time they want to do virtually anything they used to do in windows!