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Originally Posted by Prof
This decision is ridiculous. From what I've read, the main complaint was that including Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer as part of the Windows XP/Vista package was anti-competition. What nonsense!
There's absolutely nothing to stop users from deleting WMP or IE and using whichever media player/browser they choose.
Microsoft don't come tremendously high on my list of favourite companies, but this ruling is a joke. Microsoft should pull all their products from the European market and enjoy the chaos.
Will we next see the EU condemn apple for forcing iPod users to use iTunes? Somehow, I doubt it.
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Precisely!
Apply such jurisdiction equivalently and without prejudice to every similar business scenario in Europe and watch the public backlash. But it won't happen of course, because the level of the court's biases is demonstrated in miniature by several of the posts here.
It's one thing to wish the worst on a company you dislike. It's quite another to get a legal system to do the dirty work for you.