Originally Posted by
Busyman™
I don't understand what that means, "I saw what he meant and never liked the MS experience of crushing the competition".
The first I heard I of M$ harming me the consumer was a Justice Department probe.
Netscape was the first browser of note and had basically all the marketshare. M$ comes in and now the browser is free.
Was I, the consumer, supposed to get pissed 'cause now the browser is free?
The fact is that Netscape was pissed, not the consumer.
you do realise there are laws against using your dominat market postion to kill all the competition. microsoft got to the point where you either use there software or you could not really communicate with other people.
want to share word processed documents with people you have to use office otherwise people will have no idea what to do with a rtf file.
want to design a website, it has to render properly in internet explorer screw the w3 standards and all the other niche browsers.
the doj and eu did us a favour and punished them for completly monopolising these markets recently and look what has sprung up. We have firefox and opera gaining market share. Office is going to open up their file formats so other word processors can render these documents properly.
sooner or later microsoft are gonna have to start droping prices to stay competitive and the consumers wins.
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