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Microsoft to EU: Windows May Be Damaged | |
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| Time: 12:56 EST/17:56 GMT | News Source: Reuters | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft Corp said it would be forced to offer European consumers a substandard version of Windows if the European Union makes it re-write its operating system, sources close to the case said on Thursday. Microsoft issued the warning to EU regulators, they said, during a three-day closed-door hearing to consider charges the software giant abused the power that Windows gives it over the personal computer market. | ||
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| #1 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 11/13/2003 6:36:39 PM |
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"Microsoft Corp said it would be forced to offer European consumers a substandard version of Windows "
Couldn't resist.... Well given the fact the rest of the world is currently getting a substandard version of Windows why should the European Union be any different =) "He added the company would "explore every possible way to come to solutions to the (European Commission's) questions and concerns." Translation: We are currently trying to bribe the right people with the right amount of money so we can be on our way just as we did in the US. Microsoft: Boo-Frickety-Hoo! #1 "let's the free market works" I'll bite... which magical free market are you dreaming about here? The theories of a free market are all well and good and I'm sure we'd all love to have a "Free market(c)"... but the reality is that what we have is not truly a free market. #2 hehehehe #4 Well at the moment IBM and SCO are too busy subpoenaing to worry about the SCO tax. What was funnier was their inventive scheme for Linux users to move onto any other OS (especially Windows) as long as it's not Linux. |
| #2 By 135 (208.186.90.91) at 11/13/2003 7:44:39 PM |
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I like that... "Linux isn't free, you pay for it every day with the torment of using it."
:-) |
| #3 By 10022 (24.169.19.69) at 11/13/2003 8:06:10 PM |
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all this F^&(*ing around over Media Player???
guess what governments/other software companies: the average users does not understand how to use their PC. So if these things arent installed, they will be forced to try to do things for themsleves. This could only lead to have 1000 programs loading at start up all conflicting with each other. Each one will in theory will do the same thing: play movie/audio. BIG DEAL. You see, the bigger problem here is that digital technology exposes a fundimental flaw in the modern economy and this is what they want to stop. What MS has done is solved the supply problem- they have a product that makes other products un-necessary and at some point may make people aware of something called efficiency. Efficiency is bad because it allows people to do things other than work. The media playing product has been created, there is no longer any need for anyone else to make one and there is one less thing needed to be done. Since only a handfull of people are now needed to maintain the media playing application, this frees people up to work on other problems. With every product MS makes that takes 90% of the market, this frees (forces) more people to think of new things to work on, which at the appropriate time are then aquired and distributed in the most efficient way- with the OS. Once agian solving a problem (end user stupidity/suport cost that prevents the completion of the total digital world and the elimination of the Post Office/<insert name of goverment agency>) Everytime a probelm is solved, more time is allocated to remaining problems, which in turn will then be solved. Therefore the only solution is to force everyone to compete against each other to slow overall progress down to a crawl. Why do we need 10 diffrent media "players"? (Not to be confused with formats.) Why do we need 10 browsers- to preserve the idea that a free market still exists. To give the illusion that you are free to make your own choices and to keep the average user fighting agianst their computer (learning to hate it) The day people realize what a systamatic/goal orientated approach to technology and economics could do is a very scary thought to some. Just imagine a world where the what now takes millions of people world wide (like inusrance industries and banks) beign reduce to a proccess running on a server somewhere. The program Windows has grown beyond your control... It cant be bargined with, it cant be reasoned with and it absolutely cant be stopped! |
| #4 By 1845 (67.161.212.73) at 11/13/2003 8:34:51 PM |
| Everything that has a beginning has an end. ;-) |
| #5 By 2459 (24.175.137.164) at 11/13/2003 8:57:27 PM |
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Does it? ;-)
I think the "competitive" crybabies are stuck in an infinite loop. |
| #6 By 1845 (67.161.212.73) at 11/14/2003 2:26:20 AM |
| lol, um, seems we had a context shift or our viewstate is invalid. :-) I was responding to his Revolutions allusion with one of my own. But, yeah, in reality (that is, non Matrix land), I agree with your assessment, n. |
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