I sold my soul. (PS3 Related)

[Andir]

RSEagle said:
What are you talking about?

If you don't know, you NEED to educate yourself quickly.  Microsoft has repeatedly abused it's market share, licensing deals, and monetary power to swallow up or crush any competition.  When Microsoft gained market share they needed to start playing by different rules, but they continued down the path of a conglomerate monopoly and continued shifting funds to whatever device or software needed to succeed.  IE, .NET, DirectX, Office, Zune, XBox, etc squashing any chance a startup or competing company had at success.  Through it's market share of Windows, they jump started all these applications in order to maintain dominant market share.

Hell, even today, there are undocumented APIs in Windows that competitors do not know about that gives Microsoft an advantage when creating applications like Office, IE, .NET, DirectX, etc that keep competition from creating a faster or more reliable alternative.  If you look at the recent OLPC debacle, Microsoft used regional pricing to reduce the price of Windows to $3 for some countries while maintaining a $200+ price for it in the US and other major countries.  They did this to stifle competition.  It's illegal in the US.  Each of these "startup" divisions and applications (if they were separate companies) would have failed miserably if it weren't for "shuffled funding", insider information and predatory schemes.  I'm glad the EU stood up to them and demanded full documentation of APIs used for PC to PC communication, but I hate that fact that Microsoft paid off the US Government when  they were being tried here.