In Brusells Microsoft is back in court fighting to get the case infront of the EU for the anti-trust suite that has come upon them one again. This time its for Explorer 8.
Microsoft is accused of “crushing rivals by bundling its Internet Explorer web browser into its ubiquitous Windows personal computer operating system, giving the program a huge advantage over competitor’s browsers”.
Microsoft lost is case with the EU (European Union) regulators in 2007 which was then 660 million dollars. Plus another 1.2 million in fines and fees. If they lose this case it will be the bggest loss, and fine of any anti-trust case.
I’m pretty sure Microsoft couldn’t give a s&^t. They have made 27 billion dollars since 2001. So I’m sure the retired Bill gates, is shaken in his boot. I’m pretty sure with the money he makes every second, it’ll take his geriatric ass longer to crap than it will for him to right a check for 2 million dollars.
Have these people never heard of Firefox, which Microsoft hates, because its a better browser. Or even Safari. Microsoft could give 2 bits about any apple stuff, except the iPhone which has basically crippled the WinOS mobile operating systems running on phones all over the world. Everyone wants an iPhone. Also weren’t they also sued over this already? I guess if you change the number it doesn’t make it double jeopardy. Now I’m not an advote for anything Microsoft. Except MS-DOS, so I say if they wanna rule the market. Let um. Sometimes you gotta pay to be king.
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May 1st, 2009 at 7:41 PM
microsoft wrote the program that allows the iphone to interface with the vast majority of computers out there. hate them all you want, they are laughing their way to the bank at your expense. when apple realized that the cell phone market was driven by business users and that the vast majority of business users DO NOT use the Mac, they ran to Gates and microsoft to have them fix their problem so their toy would work.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:03 PM
im pretty sure you missed the point. the iphone will crush the WINos in the future, because it does work with both PC and Mac. They are projecting selling huge numbers next year. Somebody had to write so it would work with windows. so obviously Microsoft would be the go to person for for that. the point was that why would Microsoft even care about the anti-trust. they make more money than they know what to do with. now onto other points the entire business world DO NOT use macs. not a secret. I don’t hate Microsoft. I think MS-DOS is beautiful. oh and you left out how Microsoft bailed out apple financially in the 90s. if your going to come at me. give me everything. don’t nit pick.