Microsoft is not apple, nor is it any of the dozen or so companies working in the embedded space. Are you telling me that Microsoft is incapable of designing a non IE dependent update system? Come-on.Įugenia, the editors are not peddling ridiculous conspiracies at all. Imagine that! And up until today, you still cannot run Windows update without IE. When they redesigned the MSN web site recently, for example, their intention was to lock out all non IE users. What do you think the anti-trust case was all about? If you need help, the folks at BeOS will explain that to you. > If they let you choose which browser/mail etc you want to use, then why should they act otherwise when it comes to OS booting?Īre you kidding me? Yes indeed, MS doesn’t want anything other than Windows booting on a PC. You ask them why, they reply ‘Because its the standard.'” “This is almost like walking down the street, watching people whipping themselves, over and over, until rivulets of blood are down their backs. I remember reading something in ESRs BLOG awhile back when people were reporting that WMP9 was unremoveable, this is not verbatim, but it was something along the lines of So quite frankly, this whole thing has very little relevence to me, unless they start pushing their BS into making hardware that blocks all non MS OSs, but that would require quite a few laws to change, so im not all that worried. i will never use a microsoft product because quite frankly, they are too simplistic for me, i cant function without a more robust commandline interface then MS-DOS. If it is too much, MS is gonna alienate huge portions of its user base, if it pays off, MS will be untoppleable for the forseeable future. Look at microsofts business strategy, with longhorn they will be betting everything that the public will accept DRM. What is wrong with consumers that they can’t see that MS made this security problem, and they should fix it, and not by using it as an excuse to perpetuate their monopoly.Ĭhrist, talk about naive. What is wrong with the DOJ that they can’t see how they have been completely dorked by MS in the so-called “settlement”. It’s MS’s monopoly that got us to where we are today, and now they’re using that to perpetuate that monopoly. If MS hadn’t been in a monopoly position, and had to actually provide a quality product to compete against genuine rival software companies, it would have focussed on security in the first place. Every anti-competitive thing it does today is to “make the personal computer more secure”. The thing I find astounding is that MS is now using it’s atrocious security record to it’s anti-competitive advantage. If MS is of a mind to, it will lock out other OS’s. At least with the OEM deals, you could dual boot. Although it already does this through its OEM deals, this is worse than that. If MS controls the bios on 4 out of 5 major PC manufacturer’s PC’s, then it controls what OS you run on that PC. If MS controls the BIOS, MS controls the OS you run on the computer – simple as that.
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