EU to Slap Charge on Microsoft for Breaching Browser Deal

[Bloob]

[citation][nom]mr_tuel[/nom]If I was Microsoft, I wouldn't include ANY browser in an EU OS. Let them download their choice from another PC or mail-order it. That strategy is certainly not anti-competitive....[/citation]

I wish they would do this, maybe then people would learn to use their computers enough to realize that you don't need IE to download other browsers.

 

[law shay]

[citation][nom]sykozis[/nom]The EU doesn't appear to be interest in applying those "regulations" equally....Only Apple gets to openly violate the EU's "competition regulations" with no consequences....[/citation]
EU did. Opera tried to sue Apple, when Apple block Opera from their App store. EU said, "We'd investigate this matter, we had a similar case with MS." Apple, then, immediately allowed Opera in.

Now, Apple won't allow G+ and Google Voice search. Very soon, Google would try to sue Apple in EU.

 

[law shay]

[citation][nom]mstngs351[/nom]Despite what some would have you believe MS had control of the market well before they were huge and capable of backroom deals. MS has never had a monopoly but I can understand how that word might be confusing. I mean it only has MONO as part of the word but... This isn't about the OS, it's about the browser and it is oh so very easy to install other browsers. You don't need any real working knowledge and just follow a series of clicks. If this particular issue that I was commenting on was about MS buying and shutting down a competitor or something along that line then I could see your point. But it isn't. It's about having other browsers be required on the PC. Why stop there? Why not require MS to include other companies office suites, video players, calculators other versions of paint or snipping tools? Oh wait, I can do that myself in less than a minute. I love your random jump to child labor. It was cute and shows your irreverent nature.[/citation]

It is about using the monopoly of OS to gain browser market share.

Let's say, I'm selling coffee and sugar. My coffee is very very very famous. You are selling sugar. I force the customers to buy my sugar if they buy my coffee. (Otherwise, no coffee sold to them). Since the customers (happy or not) got both coffee and sugar from me, they don't buy your sugar. You cry and go to EU for help. EU told me don't force customers to buy your sugar if they buy my coffee.

Yet, I continued to force the customers. Even though there are customers who throw away my sugar and buy your sugar, EU is still not happy.

Clear enough?

 

[john_4]

Once a convicted monopolist......

 

[jkflipflop98]

[citation][nom]law shay[/nom]It is about using the monopoly of OS to gain browser market share.Let's say, I'm selling coffee and sugar. My coffee is very very very famous. You are selling sugar. I force the customers to buy my sugar if they buy my coffee. (Otherwise, no coffee sold to them). Since the customers (happy or not) got both coffee and sugar from me, they don't buy your sugar. You cry and go to EU for help. EU told me don't force customers to buy your sugar if they buy my coffee. Yet, I continued to force the customers. Even though there are customers who throw away my sugar and buy your sugar, EU is still not happy.Clear enough?[/citation]

I'm amused that dullstones refer to windows a monopoly.