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States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft
Bergkamp10 writes "State antitrust regulators have dismissed companies such as Google and Mozilla Corp, and software technologies such as AJAX and SaaS as "piddling players that pose no threat to Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system and browser markets".
According to the report ten US states, including California, New York and the District of Columbia have called for an extension of monitoring of Microsoft's business practices until November 2012.
They claim that little has changed in the OS and browser spaces since the 2002 antitrust case ruled against Microsoft. In their most recent brief, the states countered Microsoft's contention that Web-based companies — Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, eBay and others — and new Web-centric technologies constitute what Microsoft dubbed a "competitive alternative to Windows."
Not even close, said the states, claiming that while these companies' products provide functionality for users they still rely on Operating Systems and browsers — the two spaces where Microsoft dominates.
Experts were apparently even more damning, claiming competition in the market has not been restored since 2002 and that the collective powers of Google, Firefox and Web 2.0 are about as effective as a one legged man in a butt-kicking contest when it comes to unsettling Microsoft's monopoly of the market."
Time out for a second. This is ridiculous.
Microsoft is one of the United States most profitable businesses. What other country has an absolutely HUGE company with it's main product fueling the rest of the world...hmmm Saudi Arabia perhaps, but that's another market (Petroleum)
I doubt this sort of behavior occurs in India, or China, or Pakistan for that matter.
This country is going to hell in a handbasket economic wise and these technological industries are one of the US's last hopes.
What I find ironic is our own government is trying to stifle a major breadwinner for this country, while the rest of the world thrives at our expense.
Wake up America. Compete and embrace our home grown successes or go out of business, not to mention Microsoft uprooting itself and moving to a more economic friendly country.
There's a one legged guy in the town where I live, he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. He's a nice guy, friendly and all. I've seen him kick a piñata to pieces with a single roundhouse kick. He landed awkwardly, but it had the desired result.
The moral is: never underestimate the one-legged guy!
The problem with these so called "Experts" and "Business Analysts" is that they simply lack the foresight to see into the distant future. Based on some petty statistics, they can predict the business trend for a next couple of years but they simply can't tell what's going to happen 10 or maybe 15 years down the line. Take them 20 years back, and these same "experts" could never have been able to predict that Microsoft would become such a behemoth as it is now.
So simply shut your eyes and ears when "experts" say some thing. Ten years from now they would be saying: Well, there is nothing that can displace Linux from the desktops. OS "XYZ" (some futuristic OS not Microsoft) is not remotely capable of offering a competition to Linux's monopoly and blah blah blah.
What do you want? The governments of these states are simply obeying the EULA. I am copying this EULA below for reference (bold emphasis mine):
F*****g corrupt governments. Taking a company's money, and as soon as the people make one little complaint, they stab 'em in the back!
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Rather than mod me down - care to make your own predictions?
Are you new here or what? You just went on a tirade against Microsoft, said how Linux and Apple were trending to take market share from them and sang the praises of OpenOffice.org. Then you invite people on Slashdot to mod you down. For what? You're preaching smack in the middle of a HUGE choir.
I'm surprised you're not +10 Godlike by now.
I'm a big tall mofo.
Depends on how you feel about rape. I'd have to think it would be a violation of trust, I didn't realise that Microsoft was also abusing their monopoly amongst the porn/snuff industry.
Semi-automatic amateur armchair Australian philosopher; conjecture ready at any moment...