I suppose only someone on their knees to Gates could say something like that. 
Posted on 02/10/2005 6:13:21 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
Microsoft Corp.'s 2001 antitrust settlement with the Bush administration hasn't reduced the dominance of the company's Windows personal computer operating system, a Justice Department lawyer said yesterday.
There has been "no demonstrable change in the operating system marketplace," government lawyer Renata Hesse said in Washington in response to a question from the federal judge overseeing the accord. "Microsoft continues to have a large share in that market."
The 2001 agreement resolved a suit that at one point threatened the world's largest software maker with a breakup
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Kollar-Kotelly, who approved the settlement in 2002, said she wasn't concerned about Microsoft's dominance of the operating system and Web browser markets.
"I assumed it would not be something quick," she said. "The idea was to provide incentives. The question is whether people will respond to it."
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"Microsoft still has plus-90 percent of the Web browser market," Houck told Kollar-Kotelly.
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The appeals court also overturned a different trial judge's order to break up Microsoft.
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Ping to another Kwasi thread!
I mean think about it: is it easy to install new software in Linux? Can you easily install or remove driver support for computer hardware out there? And do the hardware drivers offer full support for the hardware in question?
Microsoft Corp.'s 2001 antitrust settlement with the Bush administration hasn't reduced the dominance of the company's Windows personal computer operating system, a Justice Department lawyer said yesterday.No kidding. All the laws, lawyers, and federal judges in the world can't change the basic structure of the marketplace. Except to screw it up, which they did.There has been "no demonstrable change in the operating system marketplace," government lawyer Renata Hesse said in Washington in response to a question from the federal judge overseeing the accord. "Microsoft continues to have a large share in that market."
I'm no MS purist...I use Mozilla for much of my personal browsing. But their centralization of the basics has moved the technology level of the PC business ahead at least 5 years, and possibly ten.
-Eric
The big reason why Linux hasn't made significant inroads on desktop machines (besides the fact Microsoft Windows XP Home/Pro are preinstalled on most new machines) is the fact Linux still has nowhere near the hardware driver support Windows now enjoys.My understanding is that the habit of some of the "open source" purists of harrasing manufacturers who don't offer Linux drivers has actually backfired, and major companies simply don't want to deal with "those people".
-Eric
Microsoft's dominance of the web browser market is waning because better products are entering the marketplace. Mozilla's Firefox browser is regarded as a superior product in many ways most importantly in offering better security. What's more it's free.
Drivers for peripherals is a big drawback for most of us casual users, in Linux and in beta x64 Windows. Non tech users just don't have the time and inclination to search out the needed drivers. Also, the available drivers may not work on the latest video cards, printers, etc.
I have an AMD 64 system and want to go to the Win x64 OS, but frankly don't want the frustration of cobbling it together. I read that the final release of MS XP 64 must be installed as a clean install. Even that is a pain as I'd rather just up my XP 32 to XP 64 to save the time of loading in the rest of my applications (some that I no longer have the installer for).
I suppose only someone on their knees to Gates could say something like that.
User-Agent statistics for Windows-based web browsers have dropped 5 Percent in the last six months.
Microsoft is in a panic.
Or more accurately - the installed base share is shrinking...
Yahoo is acknowledging (somewhat) that Firefox is a power to be reckoned with now, since today they offer a toolbar for it:
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/print.php/3482141
At least it's a beginning. Now they need to code their Yahoo Mail so that Mozilla can use all the editing functions.
The DOJ is lucky there was even a settlement.
I don't know HOW the appeals court didn't decide to just kill the entire case. When a judge is commenting on the case to a reporter and embargoing said comments - and those comments show clear frigging bias.
Thomas Penfield Jackson is going to make legal textbooks - as Exhibit A in "How *NOT* to Handle a Case."
microsoft has NOT paid out one dime of this money.
because several appeals were filed.
until the appeals are resolved, no money will be paid.
I don't know HOW the appeals court didn't decide to just kill the entire case. When a judge is commenting on the case to a reporter and embargoing said comments - and those comments show clear frigging bias.Like other sleazy politicians, Jackson was outraged that someone dared develop a new product without the aid and permission of the bureaucracy. Hence this case, akin to suing GM for refusing to sell cars without transmissions.
-Eric
Thanks for the ping.
Because Microsoft was clearly leveraging its Windows monopoly in an anti-competitive manner, especially in its OEM licensing terms.
There is no browser "marketplace". A marketplace is where goods and services are bought, sold and traded. With the exception of Opera, web browsers are free.
That's funny I can buy a Kenworth truck WITHOUT a Motor, transmission, and rearend gears. It's called a 'Glider Kit'.
Go to your local KW dealer and ask him.
And it's not just KW, most truck companies do this, including GM.
Try this link:
http://www.kenworth.com/6600_pro_glo.asp
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