Microsoft Corporation Message Board

rown acid.

computers these days are like the english
language, which is taking over the world. It's easier to do
business if you are speaking the same language. That's
just a simple fact of life that joel klein wants to
characterize as "illegal." microsoft didn't create this
economic fact. They just took advantage of it. It's not
illegal to have a natural monopoly. It's illegal to abuse
a monopoly, but judge jackson was wrong about that.
Netscape's website has been continuously in existence since
the earliest days of the internet. Microsoft's
bundling ie onto windows never shut netscape.com down. The
internet makes everyone's website, including netscape's,
available to everybody all the time. That's how the
internet works. If you have a product to sell, the thing
to do is to create a website. No one ever prevented
anybody from visiting netscape's website.

i just came home from a worldwide vacation and
guess what i saw. I saw everyone from europe to asia to
africa using computers and being able to communicate
with each other easily because they are using windows
pc's. There's no doubt in my mind that the existence of
windows os is one of the biggest factors allowing for the
rapid spread of economic globalization and the rapid
spread of the internet itself. It's not just the
existence of a common operating system but also the use of
common office applications that allows people and
businesses to communicate easily without someone like joel
klein trying to throw a wrench in the process of
economic globalization and the internet. For example, if i
write some document using ms word and need to send it
to some business partner in europe, then my business
partner is able to read that document because he's using
ms word too. But joel klein does not like this
situation. He wants to make my life and my business
partner's life unnecessarily difficult for some reason. Why
does joel klein want to do this? Anyone have a clue?

Let them use Linux.