Windows taken of the market? Oh no!

[System]

A well designed Operating System is modular and scalable. Tying multimedia and internet technologies to the core operating system offers no real technological advantages.

When there is a global OS monopoly I believe clone companies should be offered the option to purshase only the parts they want or need. If they want to leave Mozilla out in favour of the Opera browser that should have to be possible. The same option should have to be available for most other programs like document viewers, multimedia players and all similar 3rd party programs.

I do believe packages should be allowed to be offered by a monopolist as well, but there should have to be a rational price distinction between full packages and a bare bones version of the operating system. Other companies should have to be able to offer their own packages with the monopolist OS core as well. The current monopolist tries to tie every technology thinkable to its operating system and (also) therefor abuses its position to kill competition.

This anti-competitive behaviour is extremely bad for innovation in my opinion.

[System]

+ its support many Gov't employees will become "Clueless" about various problems on Windows

No they wouldn't.  If Microsoft went away tomorrow, they couldn't pull thousands of installations off of machines, and they have done a great job at training MCSE's and MCT's who actually know what's going on in the world.

[System]

I'll just point out that the initial reson for the DOJ to persue MS over the browser issue, wasn't becuase it was having a devenstaing effect on companies like Netscape, but because the DOJ wasn't able to use the software that companies like netscape developed for several US government agenices that they paid a large price for, was rendered inoperable by the presence of the system dominating IE 4.0, remeber  IE3.0 had been included in the 97 upgrade of win95 and no one complained.. because it was easily over ridden

[System]

No idea.  Delete your cookies and try again.  Why is it that no one ever thinks to e-mail me rather than posting this publicly?  Are Amiga users so backwards it affects their sensibilities?

[System]

The post above was by me BTW - must have hit post anon or something by accident  :-?

[System]

The big problem is that when people think Computer they mean PC, and PC is connected to Windows in peoples thinking (M$ Brainwash 2002). That`s the way it is, much thanks to the OEM deal. Making the Companies stick with Windoze, is making people use Internet Exploder. That is the problem. People think Internet , and mean IE! That makes no more room for Netscape. Also you can`t uninstall IE!
b.t.w. IE stinks