Comments on: Microsoft Fined $690 Million in Antitrust Suit http://cybernetnews.com/microsoft-fined-690-million-in-antitrust-suit/ Technology News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/microsoft-fined-690-million-in-antitrust-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-115692 Ryan Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:14:04 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/17/microsoft-fined-690-million-in-antitrust-suit/#comment-115692 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-115599" rel="nofollow">Zoltan Farkas wrote:</a><blockquote>Forcing monopolies to allow interoperability is nothing new</blockquote></div> That's true, but to hurt a consumer's out-of-box experience by not including Windows Media Player is bad in my opinion. From what I gather they still offered the version for sale with the media player, but it's just more confusion for consumers who are picking up a copy. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-115604" rel="nofollow">Andrew wrote:</a><blockquote>Yeah but I bet with Mac you can uninstall iTunes, but with Microsoft you can’t uninstall anything just make the icon hidden.</blockquote></div> There is an option in the Add/Remove Programs to remove Windows components. You can even remove Internet Explorer if you wish. Zoltan Farkas wrote:
Forcing monopolies to allow interoperability is nothing new

That’s true, but to hurt a consumer’s out-of-box experience by not including Windows Media Player is bad in my opinion. From what I gather they still offered the version for sale with the media player, but it’s just more confusion for consumers who are picking up a copy.

Andrew wrote:
Yeah but I bet with Mac you can uninstall iTunes, but with Microsoft you can’t uninstall anything just make the icon hidden.

There is an option in the Add/Remove Programs to remove Windows components. You can even remove Internet Explorer if you wish.

]]> By: Andrew http://cybernetnews.com/microsoft-fined-690-million-in-antitrust-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-115604 Andrew Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:27:05 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/17/microsoft-fined-690-million-in-antitrust-suit/#comment-115604 Yeah but I bet with Mac you can uninstall iTunes, but with Microsoft you can't uninstall anything just make the icon hidden. Yeah but I bet with Mac you can uninstall iTunes, but with Microsoft you can’t uninstall anything just make the icon hidden.

]]> By: Zoltan Farkas http://cybernetnews.com/microsoft-fined-690-million-in-antitrust-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-115599 Zoltan Farkas Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:53:03 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/17/microsoft-fined-690-million-in-antitrust-suit/#comment-115599 Forcing monopolies to allow interoperability is nothing new: This is quite similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-a-Phone_v._FCC. No microsoft employee complains about that ruling against ATT. I guess it's OK to attack another monopoly. A message to the microsoft employees: Stop Whining! Forcing monopolies to allow interoperability is nothing new:

This is quite similar to [en.wikipedia.org]

No microsoft employee complains about that ruling against ATT. I guess it’s OK to attack another monopoly.

A message to the microsoft employees: Stop Whining!

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