yo_john117 on 12 March 2013
| superchunk said: It is ridiculous that MS has to take these steps in the first place. MS was fined out wazoo and forced to change many years ago by US and EU regulators. They have changed and its clearly not a monopolistic giant any more. Windows is no different than Android, iOS, Mac, Linux etc at this point. You can easily switch defaults and add any software you want at any level. However, MS is the only one being punished for having default software that they build. That is BS and should no longer continue. They paid the price and rectified the issue. They should not have to provide endless options to sell their competitors products. Apple and Google do not have to do this and they are just as powerful in other markets as well. If someone is too ignorant to understand how to switch to a browser, media player, etc that they prefer... then they need to get to fuck off the internet to begin with. Anyone who cares, can easily switch to anything. Hell, most users would be confused by the questions as they simply don't understand any of the differences. |
This. I can understand and am glad that they got in trouble over their IE shenanigans but having to promote other companies browsers is absurd. I can't think of any other instance where a company has to promote another companies product. A huge fine like this over a rule that shouldn't even exist is just incredibly stupid.
Also who actually gets all that money? If it's the EU that does that is just wrong. It should go to the people affected by this, not some greedy, bloated corporation (which is essentially what most government/agencies are)
