| Jereel Hunter said: No see, the analogy was broken to begin with. Microsoft is giving away something free in a market where all options are free. They are just able to have 100% coverage, which is considered unfair. As for the US antitrust issues, in the end, the only thing they were required to do was give others access to the OS-APIs that MS has always had access to. (I would agree that this was very anti-competitive) They realized, however, that there wasn't a legal basis for restricting the bundling MS does. |
They're free to download, but they give the involved companies a profit. Mozilla gets money from Google for the searches coming from Firefox, and Microsoft obviously makes money from its search. So instead of paying upfront you're paying by watching advertisements later.
Were it not for these continued lawsuits from antitrust regulators, Microsoft would probably rule a great percentage of the software market, and on their way to dominate even more.
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