Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment

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."

Comments

District of Columbia

[Apple Acolyte]

DC = !a state

Re:District of Columbia

[calebt3]

That's not off-topic! The headline says seven states. I count six states and D.C.

What to do...

[calebt3]

From the article:

This last bit gets into the argument over Microsoft's current desktop monopoly and what, if anything, is to be done about it. Simple. Take the advice of that one EU thinktank and force OEM un-bundling.

Re:Just what I want -

[davester666]

What' makes this web-standards argument kind of ridiculous for Microsoft is that they say they can't follow the standards because it would break too many pages, which use non-standard HTML because IE doesn't follow the standard... MS can't follow the standard now, because they didn't follow the HTML standard in the past with either their web-viewing software OR their web-creation software, which was, of course, to aid in monopolizing the internet/crush their competition [which was Netscape at the time].