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Repeat.: IE 7 keeps whatever search default that you had before when you download it That still stands.

You have the option of importing preferences and bookmarks when you install Firefox, but I'm not going to delete it and reinstall it just to prove you wrong again.

Perhaps you will show me the figures from comScore Media Metrix Announces or any other reputable web tracking aite that says that, yes?

You haven't backed up your claim that MSNBC is number one, but netnews top 20 lists MSNBC as 9, and Alexa web search lists them at 8.

What constitutes and doesn't constitute an illegal monopoly act by Microsoft reamins the domain of the DOJ, who continue to closely monitor the anti-trust agreement reached with Microsoft.

I know you've got battles going with several posters, but you're responding to a claim I never made. At no point in time, in any of my posts on this thread, have I advocated DOJ get involved or claimed that what MS does is illegal. A monopoly is "Exclusive possession of a market by a supplier of a product or service for which there is no substitute." Once again, Microsoft has a perfect right to set up their web site any way they wish. However, in the case of MSNBC, they are attempting to leverage their desktop domination by requiring use of their products to access the MSNBC streaming content. They believe that this will induce people to get Microsoft products in order to get the content. I believe it is a tactical mistake on their part, as similar content is available from numerous sources. Nowhere do I suggest that DOJ should get involved, and I reject your premise that because the DOJ is monitoring Microsoft, I should refrain from commenting on MS tactics.

Plus I never said anything about file formats anyway. You are mistaking me for someone else.

Aww geez. I'm sorry. This is my fault. I should never have responded to your first post. This statement proves one of two things; either you are totally incapable of understanding the premise that the proprietary format is the tool Microsoft uses to erect barriers to competing software packages, or you are simply engaging in sophistry to avoid discussion. In any event, I won't bother you with posts anymore.

"You have the option of importing preferences and bookmarks when you install Firefox, but I'm not going to delete it and reinstall it just to prove you wrong again."

I keep talking about downloading IE 7 (it doesn't change your search defaults), and you just keep right on talking about changing options on Firefox you have already downloaded.
Its got nothing to do with what I said.

"I know you've got battles going with several posters, but you're responding to a claim I never made"

Nope.
I never mentioned any file formats in any post here. Period.
Feel free to go through the thread.
Plus I have never mentioned anti-trust to you until you mentioned it in your previous post.
You are confused.

"At no point in time, in any of my posts on this thread, have I advocated DOJ get involved or claimed that what MS does is illegal"

At no point have I suggested you did.
I have argued with another guy over anti-trust laws, and then that wasn't you. Unless you have 2 names on FR of course.

"Aww geez. I'm sorry. This is my fault. I should never have responded to your first post"

You will perhaps show me this "first post" where I talked about file formats in this thread, yes?
Will you just stop wasting my time with irrelevant posts? Sheesh!

"However, in the case of MSNBC, they are attempting to leverage their desktop domination by requiring use of their products to access the MSNBC streaming content. "

MSNBC had little to do with desktop domination.
It's just a web site partly owned by Microsoft.
Microsoft owning Windows does not make more people go to MSNBC for news.
As for Windows Media Player, Yahoo , CNN, and plenty of top news sites, and music sites use Windows Media player exclusively to stream their video and sound, and they are not owned by Microsoft.
Yahoo for example is a fierce competitor to Microsoft, and they still decided to go with WMP exclusively, because its better than the competition. Same with CNN