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Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC@8 November 2003 - 22:58
note that Windows already comes with a web-browser, a text editor, a media player, a chat program & file exchange program, an email client, and a few other programs that other companies would be glad to charge you separately for? do you want Microsoft to strip all of these things out, so that all you have is an operating system? i doubt you'd enjoy it very much.
and MS are not just an OS publisher-- they are a computer software publisher in general. i think you're trying to slant the conversation by accusing MS of "attacking" Macromedia just for introducing their own graphics products. are Macromedia guilty of "attacking" Adobe, who've been around with their web & graphics programs a heck of a lot longer than Macromedia, just for publishing programs that compete with Adobe products?
sure, it's monopolistic for Microsoft to pack free programs in with the OS so that there's no need for third-party ones. but all those other companies have to do is make programs that are SUPERIOR to MS programs-- if they can't do that, then maybe they need to switch gears toward something else. personally i wouldn't mind if Windows came with more high-quality programs integrated-- if MS would do something about plugging the security holes in Outlook once-and-for-all, and if they'd include a decent FTP client instead of trying to make IE double as a crappy FTP browser, i'd be totally happy about that.
so we have 2 pay more, to get things we might not want (all i want is an OS, hell i even h8 IE)........ and then we cant get rid of the programs we dont wanna use.......