(a company can't have more than 51% market share, MS has 90%)
That sounds weird... do you mean that they can only sell to 51% of people and have to kick out the rest, or am I misunderstanding?I'm probably misunderstanging, but if not, this should not apply to operating systems.
It would be ridiculous if half the world was running on one OS and the other half was running on another.
Right now, it's fine, but with two equally powerful operating systems, things would eventually get further and further apart until the two were simply not compatible.
I can imagine a country forcing Apple to unbundle software they provide also; hey, it's crushing competition.
Very true. Nobody will be able to make an iTunes killer for quite some time. (Not because iTunes has any noteable features other than its ability to talk to an iPod, of course).Although, I don't really care. I just store my music on CF cards and use internet radio.
Far superior, and it will be excellent once large scale public wireless gets further along :)
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Microsoft lose a bit of their power.
Just... not like this.
I still can't quite understand the way that this is all being executed by the EU, and I am beginning to fear more and more that it is not due to my misunderstanding of lawyer talk.
In my opinion, this is even unfair to Windows users.
For example, back when they were on about MS bundling IE with Windows and wanted it removed: I would not want to be using Explorer's FTP stuff to go and download a web browser. Neither do I want to pay for a web browser, which I would have to do if it was available as a seperate product on a CD.
Bundled software is an important thing!
...Especially when that bundled software is file managers, graphics APIs and window systems.
My vision of the EU a bunch of powerful cackling hypocrites.
Sad, really...