This is just getting f**king ridiculous now!
Internet Explorer is bundled with Windows because it is File Explorer; they just added the ability to browse the internet with it.
It was a bloody innovation making Internet Exploring and File Exploring in the same program! It makes everyone's life much easier not having to a) run two programs to do the exact same bloody takes and b) need to learn how to use 2 seperate programs.
Media Player Series-9 (which this is about people) IS NOT supplied with Microsoft Windows, it has to be downloaded and is yes FREE ... as opposed to Quicktime ($20) or RealPlayer One ($35).
Winamp is free, but isn't widely used by any online supplier making it blend into obscurity nowadays.
Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system for the x86 (AMD/VIA/IBM) and IA (Intel) based machines, designed for the home user.
It has nothing to do with monopolising the market trying to get everyone to purchase thier products.
Media Player is FREE and directly uses DirectX to play media files.
Movie Maker is FREE and directly uses DirectX to create videos.
Explorer/Internet Explorer are FREE and used to access the computers files or internet.
DirectCD Writing is FREE and used to create CD/DVDs.
you currently CAN NOT play DVD Movies in Media Player WITH OUT a 3rd Party DVD Renderer (so how the hell it could monopolize anything without it being completely self contained!!)
Quicktime and Realplayer are both equally used online along with Media Player.
This is just ANOTHER case of people trying to get money out of Microsoft for creating an Operating System that is very simple to use which includes everything for everyone to use without having to search online to download.
Microsoft offer so many FREE, SIMPLE TO USE, SELF-UPDATING, COMPATIBLE services in thier operating system.
MacOSX has EXACTLY the same stuff as Windows does.
iBrowse is MacOS's bundled (and apples own) internet broswer
iTunes is MacOS's bundled (and apples own) multimedia player
iStudio is MacOS's bundled Office System
and Macintosh DO NOT allow you to install OTHER operating systems on thier machines. (read your EULA if your a Mac user)
if you ask me Macintosh are the ones who are breaking the Monopoly rules.
Microsoft aren't breaking these rules even slightly, they're trying to give thier users viable products from the get go which all intergrate seemlessly allowing easier use of thier Operating System.
Quite frankly i think everyone should just bloody grow up conserning Microsoft. Sorry but it's upto the consumer what they choose to use, NOT the government to make life harder for everyone.
I use Windows and yes i used everything that comes with it rather than other things. Why? Because they're alot bloody easier, quicker and much more stable!
They do EXACTLY what they claim to do, there is no such thing as half-assed features in a Microsoft Product.
Other software developers should spend less time crying about how thier software isn't used over Microsoft's and spend that energy into actually making something that people WANT to use!
Cause right now no one wants to use the alternatives, that is why they're not used. It isn't a case that they're not available.
People who use AOL ... most of them STILL use IE over AOLE!
Sorry but it's just a fact that Microsoft's products are BETTER, that's why they're used. I mean for crying out loud look at Internet Explorer; not the most technologically advanced Browser, and everyone is still bombarded with Netscape and an alternative - but IE is still majorly used.
Because it'll display a page as it should be, it'll save a page as it should be, it'll print a page as it should and the prefferences don't require a degree in science to figure out.
I keep hearing 'loading times on Mozilla are quicker than on IE, or Safari is quicker than Mozilla' ... this is total BS.
All browsers can ONLY work as fast as your modem is; they're all using the same bloody internet protocols, the difference between Mozilla and IE when loading that makes it seem like it is loading faster is the way it loads.
You can visually see it loading each and everything; whereas IE caches it first; you'll see the pages end result just as fast, but it'll appear to be doing more.
Mozilla might have tabs and popup blocking support and such; that is all fine and dandy. But perhaps more people would like it if they actually bothered to use the WINAPI for the Windows version, eh? As it just looks tacky and the looks are part of how a program feels, and if it don't feel right, people don't like it.
Microsoft learnt this lessing a very long time ago!
Quite frankly i think this is all just pathetic on the part of the EU.
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