Aussie gecko - look at my post a few up. MS is using their monopoly of the OS market to give themselves an advantage in the web browser market.
Apple does not have a monopoly in the OS market, which is why Safari bundles are acceptable under EU law
Apple does not have a monopoly in the smartphone (or the broader phone) market, which is why Itunes bundles are acceptable under Eu law
"Internet browsers are an integral part of the OS, even back then when this all started it wasn't too hard to understand this. You could take any part of the OS and claim anti competavtive behavior. Infact by provideing a browser they are making it easy for people to find and use competators products. It's just legalised robbery, wind fall tax, call it what you want."
Internet browsers are in no sense an 'integral part of the OS' an integral part of the OS has to be integral to running an operating system (restating much) An operating system does not require a web browser, users do. An integral part of an OS is a user interface for example. You are making the mistake made by many other people in this thread in thinking that there is any period of time in which computers sold in the EU will have no browser. This is erroneous. As for your laughable assertion that this is robbery, robbery involves the transfer of goods or money from one party to another. Your claim falls down when you remember that MS was not fined for their illegal actions. What exactly was MS robbed of?
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