[pchelpers] Re: Microsoft Unbundling

Hi Gerald,

Monday, March 27, 2006, 4:16:51 PM, you wrote:

GG> Ethernet card included. I noticed that a browser was not included

Actually, it's usually built in, not a card.


GG> in the specifications. Did the USA courts rule that Microsoft
GG> cannot include Internet Explorer with new PCs?

Whether they did or not is pretty much irrelevant; Internet Explorer
comes as part of Windows. Much software actually requires it in the
background (Quicken comes to mind), so anyone trying to sell a copy of
Windows without IE would probably have to charge the same price, just
to cover extra support expenses. So why bother? These antitrust
lawsuits are all a dollar short, and a decade late, to paraphrase the
saying.  It's the height of silliness to require removal of IE or WMP
or whatever AFTER the entire market has, for several years, sold large
numbers of products which assume that they are present.

What I've heard is that the XP-N editions in Europe (sold for the same
price, I think) have had an almost non-existent market. Why buy a
WMP-free version of Windows when MOST sites serve content in the form
of WMV files?

IE6 SP2 is also part of the XP Service Pack 2 upgrade for Windows XP.

-- 
Scott.




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