Personally I'm looking forward to buying computers with virtually
nothing pre installed. I always end up deleting most of it anyway.
Alot of people start off by reinstalling the OS to get rid of all the
junk the PC manufacturers put on.
Michael Horowitz
Your Computer Consultant
http://yourcomputerconsultant.com
561-394-9079
Al Sparber wrote:
From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My concern with the complaint is that it is clearly twofold; that
Microsoft is holding standards back, and that Microsoft is holding
competitors back. One is valid, the other is clearly business.
Here's another way to look at it...
Microsoft is a software publisher. It develops an OS that contains a
default browser: Internet Explorer. Microcenter makes PowerSpec brand
computers. It made my computer. It installed Microsoft Windows on my
computer in the flavor I specified. It installed a 1 year subscription
NAS, which it does on all of its computers. It also installed Firefox.
When I booted up the computer the first time, Windows asked me to set
my default programs. One of the choices was for a browser. I could
have chosen Firefox.
As my logic goes, Opera should be suing Microcenter -- as well as any
other computer manufacturer that does not include Opera.
Further:
Apple is both a computer manufacturer and a software publisher. It
develops an OS that contains a default browser: Safari. My iMac comes
with neither Firefox nor Opera. Opera, using its logic, should sue
Apple, the software publisher. Using my logic, they should sue Apple,
the computer manufacturer.
If I were Opera, I'd take a long walk along the fjords and do some
soul-searching about "ethics", EU-style ethics notwithstanding.
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