Tom Doyle

What a joke this is, I’m not a Microsoft fan, but the thought of getting a new PC that can do absolutely nothing except turn on is frightening. Why shouldn’t Microsoft be allowed to bundle some of it’s software on to a new PC? Because it’s an unfair advantage for those who are creating alternative software?

If those people have a problem, why not go off and develop their software for a different operating system….. Oh yeah, there wouldn’t be as much money in that……

So the court has ruled that that yet again Microsoft are engaging in anti-competitive behaviour - the court oblivious to the fact that there would be no competitive playing field if Microsoft Windows was taken from everyones computers tomorrow.

I’m sorry but I just don’t get it. What’s going to happen in the future? Are we going to buy PC’s that just boot up into an operating system and then we have to go off and buy software to do even the most basic task of playing a media file? Seems absolutely insane.

Maybe the judges should move with the times and drop their pens and paper and see what is actually happening in the world outside their court rooms.

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Oh and please don’t come on posting comments about how they should at least open up their code for the world to see. Why should they??? Who will benefit – only everyone else. They created something, they own it, if you want to create good software to work with it…. do it…… Don’t whinge about how hard it is to make an impact. If your software is that good, we’ll all hear about it.