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EC to pursue Microsoft

The European Commission (EC) will proceed with its anti-trust case against Microsoft regardless of the announcement that the software giant is stripping its browser, Internet Explorer (IE), from the next incarnation of its operating system, Windows 7, in Europe.
 
aw come on... this is just beyond ridiculous now. When is the US govt gonna step in and start punishing European companies in the US?
 
This is really starting to get rediculous! The EU cannot force MS to add other browser into their products! If they want to force MS to include other browsers into their product, then the EU is starting to behave in a communist manner. What happened to the free market stuff?
 
The EU seems to think of Microsoft as a cash cow. :D

Have MS paid the other fines?
 
Here's another interesting article, especially this section:

http://windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=102204&feed=rss&subj=0
In 2004, the EU required Microsoft to unbundle Windows Media Player (WMP) from Windows. The software giant complied by creating special "N" versions of Windows XP (and, later, Windows Vista) that didn't include the WMP software. But Microsoft also sold normal versions of Windows alongside the N versions—for the same price. Virtually no consumers ever purchased N versions of Windows
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Microsoft gave consumers "choice" , the consumer CHOSE the version with WMP. So i ask you, where exactly are the consumer in this? It's clear EU does not give a crap about the end-user...money grubbers.
 
draw up a remedy that allows computer users "genuine consumer choice"
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or is it rather a case of protecting ones own?

.... whether it be IE or a rival browser, such as Opera, Mozilla’s Firefox, Google's Chrome or Apple's Safari.
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Pretty convenient how Opera sits at the head of the list.

Opera, a Norwegian browser company, whose complaint to the European Commission at the end of 2007 sparked the anti-trust investigation in the first place
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Maybe the yanks need to slap sales quotas on BMs, Mercs & VWs in the US to assist their ailing auto industry?
 
If this goes through IE will have no consumer support in a couple of years.
 
Amida said:
If this goes through IE will have no consumer support in a couple of years.
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Well, the EU hardly consitutes the world. Statistically their birthrates are plumetting in comparison to the rest of the world.
 
Um, what's it called again when the interests of a vociferous minority are advanced against the interests of the majority by an act of legislation?
 
/me waits for the Linux/Mac fanbois to arrive...

any minute now... :D

This really seems to be a bit of a vendetta being waged by the EC
 
But, if IE really is the best browser, then MS will have no complaint bundling all the popular browsers with Windows, because everyone will choose IE anyway...

This is why they chose to remove IE, so that they wouldn't have a situation where the average user will see all these other browsers to choose from on a ballot screen, try them out, and discover that IE is the slowest of them all, and not very standards compliant either.
 
Mouse said:
But, if IE really is the best browser, then MS will have no complaint bundling all the popular browsers with Windows, because everyone will choose IE anyway...

This is why they chose to remove IE, so that they wouldn't have a situation where the average user will see all these other browsers to choose from on a ballot screen, try them out, and discover that IE is the slowest of them all, and not very standards compliant either.
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Why should they bundle competitors products? MS is not a charity. It's a business.
 
kingmonty said:
Why should they bundle competitors products? MS is not a charity. It's a business.
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If they want to do business in the EC, then they shoudl abide by their rules. The US government knows about the MS monopoly, but never seems to carry out threats to stop it. MS carries on in an arrogant manner and delays the court case until the ruling is irrelevent (new OS release). The EC are dead right. GO EC GO!:)
 
What OS r u using sackboy?

sorry snackboy was an error :o
 
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My question is, if say for instance Mozilla had 95 of the user base, would the developer's job be easier? If so then i am all for it.

As far as i understand MS "force" developers to code according to MS because the user base is so large.
 
Like I said... this has nothing to do with IE, it's greedy lawyers looking to milk microsoft. :mad:
 
EC list of things to do:
* Unbundle Calculator
* Unbundle Notepad
* Unbundle Solitaire

I mean sheesh. If you dont want IE just get something else. as for the amount of money MS makes from IE? Maybe only the default live search but you will never now. Might as well unbundle MS from windows and see how far that gets them.
 
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