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Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment

Posted by Zonk on from the in-for-the-long-haul dept.

Technical Writing Geek writes "A number of states have moved to extend antitrust judgments against Microsoft until the year 2012. California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia are all contributing to the decision, and have released a report on the factors that lead to the extension. 'The report laments the state of OEM web browser bundling, saying that no major OEM currently distributes a browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). This is important due to the rise of new middleware platforms (such as Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's own Silverlight) that can create rich, OS-independent, web-based applications.' The report is slightly self-contradictory, but raises some valid points."

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  1. Thanks big brother! by NEOtaku17 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Good thing the government can decide for me what software I should receive packaged in my OS or else I just wouldn't know what to do with myself. It not like I can just choose for myself whether or not I will use the prepackaged version or download my own.

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  2. Re:Just what I want - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dear TJ P, you're a retard. Sucks to be you.

    Also, whoever clueless sucker modded him 'insightful', is clueless too.

    Way to go guys, you're rock solid professionals.

  3. Re:Alternate browsers the reason? by westlake · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    The logical solution then is to order Firefox be preinstalled on all copies of Windows, OEM or otherwise.

    Tell me why the "logical solution" is Firefox and not any other competitive browser.

    I can't help thinking that for all the Geek's talk of "freedom of choice" for the user that choice disappears when anything other than "free and open source" is available.