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legend92(3) on 19 January 2009

Gulp, here we go again. The European Commission is accusing Microsoft of unfairly dominating its competition by bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows OS. Yup, the very same argument heard in the US courts more than a decade ago after Netscape saw its 86% market share plummet in the face of a bundled IE. The commission, which already fined Microsoft $1.35 billion for anti-competitive practices in early 2008, has published the following preliminary view on the matter:

Link

they will probably get away with it



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drpunk on 19 January 2009

They can't win.

They make it as bad as possible, open to all manner of attacks, slow and just plain annoying.

Yet people still use the bloody thing!!!!!!!!!!

Stop bundling it and let everyone telnet Opera/Firefox/Chrome/IE.

That'll learn 'em.



coolestguyever on 19 January 2009

Well I use Internet Explorer, and get this i use the evil Windows Vista. Works fine for me, I'm typing this right?



Bitmap Frogs on 19 January 2009
kowenicki said:

already posted

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=57285&page=5

 

strange how its always sony fans that post this kind of stuff...

 

It's the new form of console bashing.

Just post these kinds of bad news. Any question? Oh, I'm just reporting news.

It's lame and cowardish to boot. It screams "I wish I could shout my hate all over the forum in all caps but the mods would ban me, so instead I do this".

It happens with all the consoles and manufacturers, there's always lamers with big banners from competitors posting whatever negative piece of news that can be found.





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megaman79 on 19 January 2009

Whats stupid is that this pre installed browser thing was dealt with in the 90's when netscape got pissed off.

Well goodluck to the EU, they already won almost 1 billion already so theyve done something wrong



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kanariya on 19 January 2009

I'm a web developer and I wish IE would burn in hell. What a tragedy.



FaithRaven on 19 January 2009

It's retarded to blame Microsoft from including something which is free into their OS.

I'm a professional web developer and I know for a fact that while IE is the shittiest browser to develop for it is also the most secure one.



 

legend92(3) on 19 January 2009

i think they(whoever is sueing them)  just need money so there like hey lets sue MS their loaded



bdbdbd on 19 January 2009

This is what happens: M$ has some lame excuse why they bundle IE, EU puts up a fine on them until the issue is fixed, M$ keeps bundling the browser, EU puts up a bigger fine, M$ still bundles, EU ups the fine again, M$ still bundles etc...

@Coolestguyever: Why did you post an empty post?



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legend92(3) on 19 January 2009
bdbdbd said:

@Coolestguyever: Why did you post an empty post?

Haha that was a good one