reuters.com — Google Inc has added its voice to the case against Microsoft Corp as the European Commission probes antitrust charges related to the software giant's Internet Explorer browser."Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which holds back innovation for users," Sundar Pichai, Google vice president product manager, wrote
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localzukFeb 25, 2009
Fine Microsoft should offer a browser, but they shouldn't bundle it with the OS. They should make it available as a download, like every other company.There is no point in arguing about what your personal feelings on this are, they have already been found guilty of the same behaviour at least 2 times before. They will again.
fredfredricksonFeb 25, 2009
Microsoft is not a monopoly in OS.
fredfredricksonFeb 25, 2009
But Firefox uses Google as its default search engine.
se7enviiFeb 25, 2009
EU == communist bastards
littledictatorFeb 25, 2009
Yeah that would suck! and people already complain about Windows PC's being sold with bloatware?? talk about swings and roundabouts! This is so, so wrong and really, on this one occasion, I would hope MS make a counter-claim for damages if they lose in the courts this time because I fear this nonsense would be damaging to their most important people - their customers!
trevahahaFeb 26, 2009
That's freaking ridiculous. Just knowing how difficult it is to get a feature inside a modern product today - to have the OS team even think about purposely causing errors is ridiculous. If this was 1990... sure.. but not now. And to think the potential lawsuit if they did and it was ever found out - just not worth it!
trevahahaFeb 26, 2009
That's BS... it hasn't used any undocumented hooks or features that are not open to anyone else. As a result of the antitrust years ago, Microsoft groups are *NOT ALLOWED* to talk directly with each other and build hooks for other groups. This means the IE team cannot call up a guy in the OS dept and be like "hey I need to program X feature, can you add a bit of code there?" Obviously they collaborate, but it's very controlled and all protocols used are documented. This is complete 1990's BS.
trevahahaFeb 26, 2009
Until someone then complains that they have an abusive monopoly on the download manager used, or the FTP client that is part of the OS. Where do you draw the line?
vivosmithJul 4, 2009
Didn't we hear this a couple of years ago? I thought they already were convicted. I think the EU is nothing but a bunch of Faciscist Bueracrats who need money to continue their unsustainable course. This is what is going to happen to the US unless we stop this bueracratic crap.