No Bowserless Windows 7 By Microsoft
    Some comments to this news:
    1.Of course they will. The “E” version was wanted as much as the much-loved “K” and “N” versions before. Consumers love paying more for less. Don’t they?
    2.I think the reason Microsoft is so accomodating is because this so-called “ballot screen” is primarily going to create more competition for Firefox (IE’s main competitor in Europe) and not affect IE much at all. Ironically, all of these choices may dilute Firefox’s growing market share, just as it was about to make it’s move on IE. Meanwhile, the companies and consumers who are using IE will probably continue using it because they just don’t care that much about having a browser with a bunch of bells and whistles, or because of compatibility issues. Oops! The EU is foiled by Microsoft again!
    3.This is not communism. Microsoft has the right to ship whatever browser they want with their operating system. If consumers really cared that much, they would switch browsers themselves.
    4.The EU is ridiculous. Aplle ships Safari with every Mac. Google just announced Chrome OS which is basically a browser based OS. MS Ships IE. That’s the way the industry works. If anyone is going to have a problem under the EU’s rulings it will be Google. You can’t have Chrome OS without Chrome!
    Of course the silly position of the EU was highlighted when MS said it would not ship IE. The EU got exactly what it wanted and went crying foul. They are just trying to fund thier recession off MS and Intel.
    5.Microsoft is not a person, it’s a corporation. As such it has no rights other than the rights the people decide to grant them.
    Here’s the deal: if you demand that countries protect corporation’s copyrights, the corporations must not create monopolies. But it seems to me that you want all the copyright laws, but none of the anti-monopoly laws. All the rights, none of the obligations.
    I’d be fine with the abolition of anti-monopoly laws, if copyright laws were likewise abolished. Let Microsoft ship whatever browser they want — and ALSO allow hackers to legally break into, modify and resell copies of those Windows without needing to hide anything they do.
    Would you like that? No? How come? Why don’t I have the right to make a million copies of Windows and resell them at a cheaper price than Microsoft would?
    Live your comments below the post if you have your own idea!
August 2, 2009
Tags: Microsoft Posted in: Internet
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