Micosoft in legal case - shock
Oct. 1st, 2004 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Microsoft is accused of "abusing its dominant market position" by bundling Windows Media Player with the OS. Their defence?
Linda Averett of Microsoft told the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg on Friday that many websites and software products would not work without the Windows Media Player.
She said that without the player, customers who buy computers with Windows "are very likely to feel deceived when they find that websites don't work".
Yeah. No shit. Well maybe you shouldn't be encouraging people to build websites that are wholly reliant on your software then, eh? That's abuse of your market position, right there.
Microsoft is accused of "abusing its dominant market position" by bundling Windows Media Player with the OS. Their defence?
Linda Averett of Microsoft told the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg on Friday that many websites and software products would not work without the Windows Media Player.
She said that without the player, customers who buy computers with Windows "are very likely to feel deceived when they find that websites don't work".
Yeah. No shit. Well maybe you shouldn't be encouraging people to build websites that are wholly reliant on your software then, eh? That's abuse of your market position, right there.
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Date: 2004-10-01 01:42 pm (UTC)Not really its just included in the cost of the computer. Maybe Neil knows how much the OEM cost of Windows is but I bet it takes all sorts of jumping through hoops to get a complete system without an OS.
I hold now brief for Real Media, I have the same suspicions of their proprietary code as I do of Microsoft. However I do believe you need to keep a close eye on monopolies especially ones with the track record Microsoft has. They don't give away WMP because they like their customers, the do it so they control the market in streaming media. You may not pay to watch it, but someone has to pay to encode it.