EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling

leffeman writes "An influential Brussels think tank is urging the European Commission to ban the bundling of operating systems with desktop and laptop computers. The Globalisation Institute's submission to the Commission says that bundling 'is not in the public interest' and that the dominance of Windows has 'slowed technical improvements and prevented new alternatives entering from the marketplace.' It says the Microsoft tax is a burden on EU businesses: the price of operating systems would be lower in a competitive market. This is the first time a major free-market think tank has published in favour of taking action against Microsoft's monopoly power."

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Waves of Mass histeria

[phantomcircuit]

I can see it now... waves of people returning their "broken" computers....

I recommend MS can sell Vista only ( no more xp)

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

That alone should remove their monopoly.

Re:Interesting...

[iminplaya]

Monopolies are bad for business, bad for innovation, bad for consumers.

Well, they're good for somebody. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many of them.