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Microsoft tells judge it's antitrust-compliant | |
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| Time: 18:07 EST/23:07 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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WASHINGTON--Under fire for a marketing plan that may have improperly favored Windows Media Player, Microsoft on Wednesday told a federal judge that it's trying hard to avoid any anticompetitive behavior by employees. At a conference in the same courtroom here last month, the company took heat from U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly amid news that one of its employees had devised a marketing agreement that would have forbidden portable music player makers from bundling anything except Windows Media Player with their devices. | ||
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| #1 By 2231 (71.246.198.253) at 12/1/2005 12:50:14 AM |
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Anybody willing to just take their word for it?
How about the opinion of a disinterested party? |
| #2 By 12071 (203.206.243.239) at 12/1/2005 4:07:06 AM |
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#1 "Anybody willing to just take their word for it?"
parkkker, jdhawk, lketchum... just off the top of my head. "How about the opinion of a disinterested party?" Why start now? Easier to pay someone to state their opinion - less chance of any nasty suprises down the line. |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 12/1/2005 7:59:23 AM |
| I believe them. All of the numerous previous examples of them abusing their monopoly were just accidents and happenstance. |
| #4 By 9589 (66.56.129.233) at 12/1/2005 1:27:44 PM |
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Sorry, all of you Microsoft haters. Your only chance to do any harm to Microsoft is via the so-called "Competitive Counsel" of the EU. Yeah, the EU - the "country" without a consitution - even Iraq has a constitution.
When I think of fierce competition the first "country" that comes to mind is the EU! What a sorry bunch. |
| #5 By 17996 (66.188.88.180) at 12/1/2005 3:20:38 PM |
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Their compliance is quite laughable, especially in the area of documenting the undocumented Windows APIs used by Internet Explorer. See http://members.ozemail.com.au/~geoffch/samples/win32/shell/ for an analysis. Note that the page above only covers APIs exported by DLLs, and doesn't even get into undocumented COM objects, of which there are at least several.
Finally, the APIs that Microsoft HAS documented, are documented so minimally that they are basically function signatures and nothing more. No information on how or when to use the function, details of what it does, etc. Quite sad. |
| #6 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 12/1/2005 5:22:22 PM |
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#3 Apologies Latch - I should have added you to my list :)
#4 "even Iraq has a constitution" There you go, maybe the great U.S. of A. should bring their version of freedom and democracy (via the usual ways - war, bombs, voilence and that stuff you love to do with leather whips, chains and dog collars in jail to naked hostages) to the E.U. so that they can have a constitution too! Or perhaps you can simply grow up and stop trying to reduce this is a US vs. EU thing - there's good and bad on both sides. #5 You didn't listen to jdhawk - Microsoft is antitrust-compliant. |
| #7 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 12/1/2005 5:53:19 PM |
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Well, Chris, it really is about the EU and their lack of a constitution. What we have learned over this year is that the EU constitution was rejected by France and Belguim because their citizens, in large part, feared more competition not less. Given this fact, it is no wonder that they are trying railroad Microsoft into revealing their IP and fining the crap out of them before their legal rights have been fully exercised through the EU's own stated appeal process. An appeal process that has rejected the rulings of the so-called "Competitive Counsel" more often than not.
By the way, the US came to the rescue in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War for the Europeans through the use or threat of war, bombs, and violence. It seems to have worked, some 800 million people are free today because of it. Woah! Chris is wearing panties on his head (again - smirk) - torture! torture! Abugreb! Abugreb! lol |
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