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Google Joins EU Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
gubm writes "Google said it wants to help the European Commission prove its antitrust charges against Microsoft regarding the bundling of the Internet Explorer browser with Windows."
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My faith in Google just dropped significantly.
Agreed. This is one cluster-fuck can of worms they're about to open.
No, that isn't what I meant. What I said was what I meant.
More and more site developers are coding to standards rather than browsers. That means IE gets the degraded shitty experience, whilst any standards compliant browser gets something approximating what the developer intended.
That's the way it should be. Fanboism is irrelevant, people should have the choice of compliant browsers, and IE should fuck off and die.
"Google must be losing confidence in their ability to compete on leveraged monopoly market positions alone."
That statement implies that Google doesn't think merit has anything to do with it at all.
Probably not becasue they would ahve to deal with the EU if they only added IE.
This could be good for PC makers becasue they could charge a fee to be added to their build. .01 Cents per install.
So you want to be on a dell PC? pay
The fact that your wife can't do something as simple as use another browser for you speaks more towards your relationship then it does for the average user.
I explained why I don't like IE and my wife switched. It's not like there is much of a learning curve; even less now.
My wife is an avid volunteer at our kids's school, we PTA president. We don't use office, so when we would get a Doc in MS's ne format, we would request that the sender save it as a doc file, explain why we don't use office. People understood and a few that have since got a new PC have moved to openoffice.
This are very typical people, very few with a technical background.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
"Yeah, I'm sure enforcing the same laws they enforce against everyone else must seem like a political game if you live in a country where MS gives huge amounts of money to politicians and those same politicians make sure laws aren't enforced against MS."
You've got it backwards. MS lost out because they weren't contributing money to the politicians and many of their competitors did. The antitrust case was a "reminder" that they have to pay their protection money. MS got the "message" and now they do contribute.
Do you wonder why people are still talking about whether Ticketmaster should be investigated as a monopoly many years after it was obvious they were one? They had exclusive deals with venues that didn't allow those venues to contract with other ticket companies. Sound familiar?
You can bet if Ticketmaster had been competing with the likes of IBM, Sun and Oracle, they would be in MS's position today.
So don't give us that "enforcing the same laws they enforce against everyone else" crap.
If you're on Facebook, there is a new group in support of the EC's case against Microsoft. -- Please join and invite your friends!