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Domicinator on 17 January 2010
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Kushalafang said:
Domicinator said:
Microsoft does not have a monopoly and is not trying to have a monopoly. If they actually had one, Apple and Google would not exist. Microsoft has a lion's share of the market, but it's 100% not a monopoly.

Just cause they failed doesnt mean they are not trying.

They're not going to try because such a thing is illegal, and the last thing they need to do is keep paying multi million dollar fines.  

As a side note, the charges that the EU and other groups bring against them because of their "monopoly" venture into the ridiculous.  Microsoft makes Windows and they make Internet Explorer, yet they are forced to not bundle one piece of their own software in with another piece of their own software?  I can see wanting to UNinstall IE.  (This used to be very hard to do in Windows, but no longer is.)  But telling a company it can't bundle its own browser into its own OS is absolutely stupid.  People are not complete idiots.  If you use a computer with any regularity, you know about Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and all the other smaller name browsers as well.  If you want to switch to one of them, you will.  Hell, I'm a HUGE fan of Microsoft's products, and I ditched IE a long time ago, first for Firefox and recently for Chrome.  IE usually only gets opened when I'm first installing Windows on a machine and need to get my browser of choice from the web.  

It's popular to call Microsoft a monopoly, but it's not true.  It's also popular to say Apple computers are infallible, but that's not true either.  It's just what the commercials, the web forums, the news sites, etc. like to tell you.  Do some homework before agreeing with them.