January 16, 2004
Antitrust Does Not Mean Anticorporation
Posted by nerdling | January 16, 2004 05:03 PM
Microsoft has, after being advised to do so by the Justice Department, agreed to offer alternative software choices to Windows XP users to avoid any further tangles with antitrust legislation.
The settlement requires Microsoft to allow computer users to choose which non-operating system programs they want to use for browsing the Internet, listening to music or viewing digital videos.
I would think that this is a good thing except that Microsoft is still going to offer IE for free, and you are still going to have all those wonderful Windows files embedded on your HD, and the internet is still going to be based around an IE standard. They already have a stranglehold on the market so this might just be too little, too late.
