EU slaps Bill & company...

[DeepIron]

I personally believe that M$ have really turned a lot of people against them with Vista and if we let the MARKET deal with things they will lose their share anyways despite their monopoly.

Not going to happen 'bro... Why? Because if you're a large PC manufacturer, you're pretty much forced to load an M$ OS and that will be Vista. Yes, I know that Dell still offers XP on a small select portion of their line, and they also offer LINUX on a an even smaller number of units.. But if you're buying a new box, it'll have Vista on it.

It's the same old saw, M$ has had such dominence in the marketsplace for so long that it will take years (decades?) before their marketshare is seriously diminished...

The other sad fact fact is that LINUX, or any other *NIX like system with the exception of Apple, are not in position to fill any vacuum that might exist should M$ sales decline.

After 20 years in the IT business, I've seen this same M$/marketshare argument many, many times. Nothing has changed...

But I'm still chagrined to see Redmond get slapped...