Microsorft Revives Old Game Plan: Monopoly

[spihunter]

Read it here:

http://www.nypost.com/business/10063.htm

" As the final remnants of its massive antitrust trial are swept away, Microsoft Corp. plans to tempt fate - and the courts - all over again."

[Methuselas]

Is anyone here the least bit suprised??!?? :-x


C'mon OS4.....

[SilvrDrgn]

I'm not surprised at all.  M$ has gotten away with their crap for so long, they and everyone else think it's a common thing.  The antitrust settlement is a joke!  I don't even consider that a "slap on the wrist".  It's not worth even a thimble of donkey dung as far as penalties go.

[Lo]

I hope Novell, IBM, Macromedia, Adobe, Google, Yahoo & (ugh) AOL sue 'em!,  the Pr**ks :-x

[Arst]

Goddamit splitt up the feaking company ! Sue them!
And  ppl say im crazy whos gonna invest in a A1
board? Longhorn thats insanity! well they´ll keep on
doing their anicompetetive nonsense untill they get
a billion dollar fine and forced splittup on the company...  :-x  :-x  :-x  :-x

[Magic-Merl]

My My My.  We are a jealous bunch.

Would you be saying the same if it was the Amiga dominating the world right now?

Here is a man running a company.  He started with nothing and is now worth billions.  He has to be doing something right.

BTW.  I hate Windoze with a passion.

[spihunter]

The government wont really step in until M$ goes way to far. If all the reports about "Longhorn" are true, then this may be the beginning of the end. They've almost erased everyones OS choice, now their trying to standardize the internet to lock everyone in to their stuff.

[restore2003]

Here is a man running a company. He started with nothing and is now worth billions. He has to be doing something right.

Have you seen the movie about Bill Gates? Dunno how much of the movie is fact, but in that movie he stole much ideas from Macintosh in the beginning of Micro$oft.

[Waccoon]

"Zero price to the consumer"

Is that why retail boxed versions cost $300 or more?  You have to pay for everything, so the more stuff they put in, the more you pay.

Pretty soon, you'll be paying more for software than all of your hardware -- and mostly for junk you don't want.  That's why I stopped upgrading at Win2k.  I have no interest in Longhorn.

If the government really had ANY interest in solving this problem, they'd stop farting around with junk like bundling (which won't hold up in court, like it didn't with IE), and attack the real problem -- getting Microsoft to stop bullying hardware vendors to distribute Windows exclusively.  Microsoft has every right to bundle their software in their own product line.  They have no right to bully hardware vendors.

PC vendors should put their foot down and stop pre-loading their computers with Windows as default.  There has to be a way they can get together to do that.  Otherwise, all this court talk will achieve nothing.

[DanDude]

AAARRGGHHH!!!

Would somebody please tear Microsoft apart?!?!? :-x

[that_punk_guy]

Yes, do you happen to have a machete handy? ;-)

I'm trying to stay positive and believe MS will fall flat on their faces over this.

There are chinks in the armour of MS's final solution. This time round the main targets are IM and Flash-style animation.

Well, I don't see why me or any of my friends will suddenly switch from Yahoo! Messenger just 'cause one comes with the OS. (I don't see many people bothering to upgrade from XP anyway, but that's another discussion.)

The Flash thing is ####ing ridiculous. Everyone knows them as Flash animations, a trademark I doubt Microsoft will be granted permission to use.  Macromedia has a strong product and a strong presence that I doubt even Gates' billions could topple.

It's almost like after creating Windows 2000, these guys rubbed their heads, thinking "Okay, we've created the best OS we possibly can, that will do everything anyone will ever really need... Now let's see what we can get away with."

They haven't added anything new (that's of real value) to their OS in nearly four years because it simply didn't need anything else. One big clue is in the NT version number of XP - not 6.0 but 5.1 (5.0 being Win 2K).

If only at this point the public in general would see this situation for what it really is. Microsoft ran out of improvements to make to the existing OS and is now trying to sell the same #### over and over again. The only way they can convince anyone that it's improved is to add all this unnecessary garbage that no-one really needs.

I keep having scary images, not of HTML view folders, but of animated, Flash-style folders... Please God, no!

(I'm tired so excuse me if this post makes no sense.)

[Waccoon]

The Flash thing is ####ing ridiculous

Maybe some good will come out of it.  For one thing, I'm tired of a 150x150 Flash animation utilizing 100% of your CPU power.  Nothing slows down a browser, any browser, like a Flash plugin.