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Windows 7 To Be "Thoroughly" Tested For Antitrust Compliance

Posted by timothy on from the you-will-comply-citizen dept.

CWmike writes "Technical advisers to the antitrust regulators who monitor Microsoft's compliance with the 2002 antitrust settlement will test Windows 7 'more thoroughly' than earlier versions of the operating system were tested, according to a new status report filed with the federal judge watching over the company. Microsoft is also facing renewed scrutiny from the EU, which two weeks ago filed preliminary charges against the company over bundling IE with Windows, and said more recently that Microsoft 'shields' IE from competition."

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  1. Re:Oh yea, we'll test it really hard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now all they need is a bash terminal, wget, vim, locate, grep, tail, touch, top, a package management system (emerge, apt, rpm - not really fussy), more text-based config files instead of a registry...

    But if you had all that stuff then it'd probably freeze every 10 minutes and no popular software development house would want to write for it and it wouldn't be stable with any hardware(using buggy half-baked drivers 'n' all), especially graphics and wireless chips. Then it'd be pushed into the hobbyist/scientific computing/server niche and be reduced to 1% desktop market share.

    Oh, wait.