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Re: [News] Microsoft Headed for Major Antitrust?

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Where Should Vendors Stick Their Services? 
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Wondering if you noticed the news over at Microsoft Watch this week
>| that Microsoft has done what many considered inevitable: Started
>| using Windows as a way to hawk Windows Live Services?
>| 
>| It's not too surprising to me that Microsoft is splashing all over
>| its Welcome to Vista screen (at least in one of the latest Vista test
>| builds, No. 5506) promotional links, inviting users to download WindowsL
>| ive Messenger, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Mail Desktop, and more.
>| But I was surprised the Redmondians would be so bold as to actually
>| embed Windows Live Messenger into Vista. After all the antitrust
>| lawsuits Microsoft has been slapped with here, there and everywhere ?
>| many of which have focused on its "innovative integration" (a k a,
>| bundling) strategies, you'd think they'd be a little more cautious.
>| 
>| With the actual Windows Live Messenger code (not just a download link)
>| being integrated right into Vista, I think Microsoft might be really
>| going out on a limb. When backed into a corner before about itsi
>| ntegration strategy, Microsoft's defense was that removing any of
>| the integrated components (Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player,
>| etc.) would break the OS. But if Vista test builds have been working
>| just fine (well, middling, maybe, based on some not-so-happy tester
>| comments) without Windows Live Messenger, how can Microsoft make a
>| case for it being part of Windows?
> `----
> 
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,2005413,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

That's no problem, they'll just lie, and avoid, and debate, and
generally do what they always do.  A less corrupt US government might
deal with this, but I wonder if there will ever be one.

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Fortune finishes the great quotations, #12

	Those who can, do.  Those who can't, write the instructions.

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