The OEM can put EXEs of whatever browsers they want on the desktop. Or at the very least they can install the browser that they want to without asking MS.
The EU Department of European Redundancy Department is getting tired of rereading the same stories 2 or even 3 times over and over again to the point of exhaustion. There. Fixed it for you.
Why do I get the feeling I am about to get modded redundant?
When Sun bundled Netscape 2, how tightly integrated was it? Could you remove it if you wanted to? Integrating AC into a car makes sense. Everybody expects a car to have tires, too. You don't see many auto manufactures making their cars dependent on having at least one of the tires made by the auto company.
The difference with Mac is that they don't sell you an operating system. They sell you a computer that happens to have an OS on it that Apple wrote. I don't think Apple cares what you run on it, if you can get it to work.
You asked for bare Linux, and you can get that if you want to. IIRC, MS is allowed to sell WMP bundled with XP, but they need to have a non-WMP version available.
Could it be that they were designed for eachother That is exactly the problem. Windows needs IE. They used to be independent products, so there is proof that Windows doesn't need to need IE. MS could just as well kept them separate.
Can anybody tell me what MS has actually been forced to do as a result of anti-trust lawsuits? I don't mean what they have been told to do but rather what they were forced to follow through with. IIRC, they still haven't paid a hefty fine imposed by the EU a long time ago.
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It's written in VBA.
Talk to the instructor who teaches C.
The OEM can put EXEs of whatever browsers they want on the desktop. Or at the very least they can install the browser that they want to without asking MS.
I wish you luck. :-)
Let us know how it goes.
Why do I get the feeling I am about to get modded redundant?
I call dibs on the PDA-based list!
Don't say that. It'll just excite him.
We at /. have a name for that cage. Ironically that name is Windows, not Bars.
Depends upon whether you mean D.C. or not. D.C. is not. Washington State is in the far Northwest.
The account user's choice in the matter?
They will only see letters and numbers, not words. Even though you spelled out two of them.
You are just mostly paying for S&H and the price of the disc, case, labeling, etc.
One could call that a service.
Apparently that would be one person.
I feel that bundling is fine, and I am pretty sure I haven't said otherwise. Unnecessary integration is what bothers me.
When Sun bundled Netscape 2, how tightly integrated was it? Could you remove it if you wanted to? Integrating AC into a car makes sense. Everybody expects a car to have tires, too. You don't see many auto manufactures making their cars dependent on having at least one of the tires made by the auto company.
The difference with Mac is that they don't sell you an operating system. They sell you a computer that happens to have an OS on it that Apple wrote. I don't think Apple cares what you run on it, if you can get it to work.
You asked for bare Linux, and you can get that if you want to. IIRC, MS is allowed to sell WMP bundled with XP, but they need to have a non-WMP version available.
Ask and you shall receive.
Can anybody tell me what MS has actually been forced to do as a result of anti-trust lawsuits? I don't mean what they have been told to do but rather what they were forced to follow through with. IIRC, they still haven't paid a hefty fine imposed by the EU a long time ago.
We're not supposed to.