Micosoft in legal case - shock

[kingandy]

Guh.

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.

Comments

Re: WMA

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

"and don't have DRM turned on (off is default)"

The question is how long you get the choice? At the end of the day Microsoft can turn around and say no, you can't access that file with anything but their software (because the format is undocumented or protected by patents) and they enforce mandatory DRM.

But its ok, you can trust your data to Microsoft if you want to, its your choice ;-)

Re: WMA

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Anything I've already ripped is safe - it lives on burned disks as well as the hard disks of the PCs. Should MS change their mind in future and enforce DRM, then i'll find a different format. Until then, I'm fine with WMAs.