Legend11 said:
Lets see...
Sony used magicgate technology and basically killed the unlicensed third party memory card market at the time (funny how I don't remember the EU trying to force Sony to hand over the code to it to those memory card makers) and I don't remember anyone bashing Sony because of it.
Nintendo actively targeted a piece of third party software that allowed people to circumvent regional coding dispite the fact that it's legal to produce such software under international copyright laws (Australian law even has precedent showing it's legal) and I don't remember anyone here bashing Nintendo because of it.
Don't get me wrong I'm not calling Microsoft innocent but I find it funny that some people are so quick to bash them just because they're Microsoft. It's also funny that I don't remember the EU complaining or taking AOL to court when AOL had the dominant messenger client and actively targeted and locked out Microsoft messenger among others in order to keep it's dominance.
Anyways I'm sure some people will be happy when they're able to get Microsoft to strip things away and make it harder for novice computer users or ones without an internet connection to enjoy media files on their PC. Good work EU! |
I hope you aren't referring to me =P I don't think I really bashed them, I just said that the combined effect of these unexpected losses will likely change some decisions they make in the short term future.
Honestly, people have a warped view of MS. For instance the guy who was talking about Bill Gates, but Gates no longer runs the company day to day, last I heard he has only minor part time involvement in the operations. But more than that some folks think they are made of money which is just not true. And while they may in fact bring in a little more than a billion a month in net profits I don't know any company that can lose nearly 2 months worth of net profits and shrug like nothing is wrong. It won't kill them, and I didn't and won't suggest it will. But it will change how they think going forward, and maybe thats a good thing and maybe its not.
