EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 23, 2007 @02:09PM from the fly-be-free-little-components dept.

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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Unbundling won't make Vista better by michaelmalak · 2007-09-23 16:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic
Unbundling:
- Won't make Vista any less dog-slow than it is.
- Won't break Excel's 256-column limit
- Won't integrate Word and Excel into one seamless package
- Won't revolutionize the filesystem, e.g. with tags (breaking the strict hierarchy) or replacing it with relational database
- Won't add RTOS capabilities to an OS that also runs the most popular business applications
- Won't give us a standardized, robust, open standard platform for rich Internet applications.
Why is it we care about unbundling again?