Microsoft is accused by EU again
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"Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice." Microsoft is accused by EU again [^] What planet are these people living on? For a start this is 8 years too late. Secondly, right now I'm running four different browsers on my PC. Some reduction of consumer choice. :doh:
Kevin
Hopefully they will decide that issuing an edition with IE and one without IE is sufficient, they will call the second one 'Windows 7 E' to go with Windows 7 K (no Messenger, to massage Korea's ego) and Windows 7 N (no Media Player, to massage the EU competition commission), and we can all go and buy the former version. I believe sales of all Windows 'N' editions since XP amount to approximately zero. No, in fact I believe they are zero. No-one in the channel ever ordered it, no customer wanted it, but presumably Microsoft have to test patches against it in case anyone somehow did get hold of it. About Windows XP 'N'[^].
"Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another." - Andrei Alexandrescu
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Hopefully they will decide that issuing an edition with IE and one without IE is sufficient, they will call the second one 'Windows 7 E' to go with Windows 7 K (no Messenger, to massage Korea's ego) and Windows 7 N (no Media Player, to massage the EU competition commission), and we can all go and buy the former version. I believe sales of all Windows 'N' editions since XP amount to approximately zero. No, in fact I believe they are zero. No-one in the channel ever ordered it, no customer wanted it, but presumably Microsoft have to test patches against it in case anyone somehow did get hold of it. About Windows XP 'N'[^].
"Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another." - Andrei Alexandrescu
Yeah, I'm aware of the Windows XP N fiasco. The EU action completely missed the point in any case. You need to have multiple media players anyway because of the different formats. I remember a Microsoft exec pointing this out at the time and explaining why he had several media players on his PC. This was all to no avail though. If they really wanted to punish Microsoft they should have gone after their Windows Media content agreements.
Kevin