darkknightkryta on 30 September 2013
| binary solo said: Well I am glad Windows is a sufficiently open platform that I can use the browser I want and I can use openoffice instead of paying MS more money for MS office. And I can use an open source email programme too. Essentially the only MS product I use is Windows. So MS are behaving themselves by not shutting developers of competing programmes out of the Windows environment. Is Apple the same way? |
This is part of the problem with Balmer's comments. Microsoft back in the day, made that very difficult. They didn't ban anyone, but they made it very difficult for anyone. Competitors were bought out or pretty much bullied out by free software (This itself is not a bad thing). It's why MS was hit with antitrust in Europe and why Internet Explorer couldn't be bundled with Windows.
