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Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
mobrien_12:
quote:Originally posted by mc0282:
correct me if i am wrong didn't microsoft lose the ANTI-TRUST case, shouldn't microsoft stop including movie maker,media playe, other useless feature ? or they going to act like nothing happend ?
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No. Officially MS lost the first case. However, Jackson couldn't keep his *$ing mouth shut and made comments during a magazine interview which caused the appeals court to decide that his remedy needed to be thrown out.
Enter a new judge, Koltar-Kelley.
Koltar-Kelley ordered the DOJ and MS to settle in the name of 9-11 rather than have a second trial. The settlement was an enormous victory for MS especially since it included an agreement by the DOJ that MS would never again be prosecuted for bundling/tying media placer, MSIE, etc. to the OS.
[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]
[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]
bwid_s_01:
quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
...it included an agreement by the DOJ that MS would never again be prosecuted for bundling/tying media placer, MSIE, etc. to the OS.
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:mad: :mad: :mad: WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? So thats why MS got away with integrating MSN into XP and longhorn. Blast those fucking pricks at Microsoft, and the idiots at the DOJ. Fuck them all!
Laukev7:
I was not aware of that particular piece of information, and this indeed explains a lot. They really do get away with everything.
gump420:
Technically, once any part of that settlement is broken, the entire thing is going to basically be null and void. So we're back at ground zero - ie, like nothing happened. It's just gonna take at least ten years before anybody in the DOJ has the balls to sue them again . . .
M51DPS:
That's exactly what we need, an OS so integrated that even our lives can crash.
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