Comments on: Microsoft loses $613M EU appeal

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:17:04 +0000

It just seams like the entire world will pick on you if you make a great product. Say what you will about Microsoft’s OS being buggy and insecure, but there is a reason why they are one of the richest companys in the world.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:57:40 +0000

Who cares? Mac is way better anyway.

The 360 sucked, windows XP sucks, Vista is terrible, and the oragami… was it even out for more then a day?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:08:28 +0000

The case was not about whether microsoft should ship wmp with xp or not it was to do with the fact that microsoft shipped it to deliberately hinder there main competition.

This left xp able to play a given set formats but for another company to make dvd playback software or .wmv or .wma etc… they needed access to Microsoft API’s which where deliberately not given to them. so as to make wmp have grater market share.

microsoft are doing this again with anti virus vista has a antivirus API making microsofts anti virus as good as whatever the competition can invent(samantec). and it will be free theres has to cost atleast as much as the licence fee for the API.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:51:38 +0000

It is possible, I’m running XP without M$ chat program. Although it wasn’t easy…

By: Mathieu Clavel

Mathieu Clavel — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:51:18 +0000

As a inhabitant of EU I also agree it’s stupid to make M$ sell windows without the player wmp:
- it costs the same price to buy windows with or without wmp
- windows update put wmp in the needed updates
What I would like is to be able, as you can do on GNU/Linux, to easily uninstall (not hide) the media player, internet explorer, the defragmenter, etc.

By: iHuman

iHuman — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:37:06 +0000

Stupid EU.
Then they should make Apple remove Quicktime and iTunes from Mac OS and do the same to all Linux distro’s.
Whats just as important as a level playing field is equalality.
What they do to one OS Creator they should force on the others.