Susan B's article that just made me smile or I like to think of it as "how much money is being spent to help competition for no user benefit"

David Overton's Blog — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:57:56 GMT

I've been ranting a bit recently about wanting everything for nothing and then I saw Susan's

re: So how much money has been wasted?

Vlad Mazek — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:05:49 GMT

Whoa, whoa, wait a sec there.

The restrictions that DOJ placed onto Microsoft, and the afteraffects that only us who work with Microsoft closely enough know as a part of their internal policies and reservations over overly ambitious projects, were nothing but a good thing for both the consumer and the business.

Now I agree with your opinion that it is not governments duty to level the playing field so businesses can compete better, but aftereffects of neutering Microsoft to a large extent has allowed for things that are around today.

How quickly do we forget the evil Microsoft that bullied the customers, clients, partners, distributors and everyone even marginally involved in the IT field... Many products we see today, in the shape we see them in, are a direct result of governments around the world agreeing that there is tad too much danger in allowing a single company to abuse its monopoly to stifle others from l, l & pp.

Microsoft is neither a victim nor a friendly company. If they were not stopped in time I am sure they would have behaved like the iTunes/iPod combo. Imagine only being able to run Internet Explorer, only use Windows Media, only access web pages served by IIS server and it pushing its might to make sure none of the OEM partners would ever be allowed to install anything else or lose their right to sell Windows?

-Vlad