Ian Hilliard wrote:
> The complaint is that Microsoft are once again using their dominant
> position in the desktop market to force a rival out of a market that
> Microsoft wants to take control for itself.
> Microsoft succeeded in killing
> Netscape using the same technique.
Yet, clearly they have not been able to stop Firefox...which is growing in
market share.
> The main reason for Microsoft's success
> was that they were also able to get those producing web content to use
> Microsoft's non-standards.
Really? Was javascript an MS standard? Are we running NETBios networks
with WINS or tcp/ip with DNS?
> In the case of search, clearly, some portion of computer users will simply
> accept what is pushed in their faces. The question though is whether the
> majority of users are willing to put up with Microsoft's half-arsed search
> results. Search is not quite the same thing as web pages.
It's a bit foolish to think that MS could close Google out of search at this
point. Being able to run Google is a requirement of a PC. An OS that
prevented one from using Google would actually /lose/ marketshare.
> One can be assured that Microsoft will leave no stone unturned when it
> comes to killing off another rival.
Microsoft's too old to kill anything anymore.
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