In <v04220802b568031fa4da@[198.4.94.228]>, on 06/10/00
at 08:41 AM, Matthew Gaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The judge's order effectively destroys Microsoft's ability to compete in
>the Web browser market, thereby making that market less competitive, and
>also prohibits the company from employing routine competitive devices
>that are used by thousands of other businesses, such as exclusive-dealing
>contracts and tie-in sales.
This is just plain crap. M$ was spending $200M/yr on IE development. Good
GOD there are OS's out there (and far better than Winblows) who's entire
development cost were not $200M. M$ was not interested in competing in the
WebBrowser market place it was trying to buy it lock stock and barrel
(along with the rest of the Internet).
Micky$loth exhibited the same tactics with IE that they have in every
market they enter:
Someone outside of M$ comes up with an original concept (something I have
yet to see come out of M$)
M$ realizes that they have missed the boat yet again.
M$ tries to but the product.
Can't buy it they throw their vast resource at producing a competing
product and give it away for free claiming it is part of the OS (anyone
remember doublespace?).
Still can't run the competition out of the market because despite their
vast resource they are incompetent programmers so they result in dirty
tactics to kill off the competition. These include but are not limited to:
-- Modify the OS to interfere with the proper running of the competing
product ("DOS isn't done until Lotus woun't run!!").
-- Release "undocumented" OS API's documentation only to it's internal app
developers.
-- Use it's monopoly with hardware vendors to prevent competition's
product from being pre-installed on new equipment.
-- Use the SPAA (the M$ Brown Shirts) to extort corporations &
universities to run M$ only shops (We found some kids running warez copies
of M$ Word, we woun't drag you through the courts for years if you dump
all your current software for M$ software).
-- Deliberately tie developer resources to IE so it *must* be installed to
make use of M$ dev tools.
-- Deliberately tie OS resources to IE to cause OS instability if removed.
-- Manipulate and modify standards so only their software will properly
communicate with each other.
I don't like anti-trust actions. I think that there were better remedies
for dealing with M$. But let's face it folks anyone that can claim that
Microsoft is interested in competition in a free market place is either a
fool or a liar.
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