There's precedent for ever-increasing bundled / standard functionality in an operating system without getting into the whole antitrust thing. Didn't the terminal emulator folks make noise about Hyperterminal?
Carl -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS Anti-virus delivered via Microsoft Update On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dumping a product on the market to force competition out of business is >> a tried-and-true monopoly strategy, and Microsoft's gotten in trouble for it >> before. > > True, but there are a plethora of free AV products already on the market. > They're not breaking any new ground here. Except those other free AV products are not offered by companies which have a monopoly on the operating system market[1]. The rules are different for monopolies[2]. > Plus, they've been providing Windows Defender for a long time, and this is > in the anti-malware space (which also has a plethora of free options). To be honest, I've wondered why the other AV companies haven't been making more of a stink about that already. -- Ben [1] US v. MSFT (1998)[3] [2] One may disagree with US anti-trust law/policy, but that doesn't change same in the meantime. [3] One may disagree that Microsoft is a monopoly, but a US Court decided they were, and until and unless that finding is overturned[4], that is how the law sees things. [4] The Conclusions of Law[5] were overturned, the Findings of Fact[6] were not. [5] The decision to break-up MSFT. [6] This includes "Microsoft has a monopoly". ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
