-=> Quoting Mysticone to Finnigann <=-   
      
    > Microsoft isn't blameless in this. They DID give it away when they were   
    > loosing the market shares to Netscape.   
      
    My> From what I understand, it's not so much that they "gave it away" as   
    My> it was that they made it next to impossible to remove it.  While   
    My> Netscape had to actively seek contracts with manufacturers to get their   
    My> browser installed on new machines, Microsoft automatically got to put   
    My> it there.  Since the application and operating system markets are   
    My> separate markets, they unfairly leveraged their monopoly in one market   
    My> to strengthen another.  It's illegal, and they were found guilty of the   
    My> crime.  However, once Bush was elected, the DOJ largely became   
    My> uninterested in doing anything further and pretty much just let the   
    My> stuff die.    
    My> The result is that the web is a broken mess of code for IE and then   
    My> all other browsers, and developers constantly have to work around the   
    My> inferiority of IE because it's installed on all Windows machines by   
    My> default.    
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   As we all complain about one program, that runs on are Microsoft Windows   
   Machines?  Not to say you guys are funning, but why the long faces all of a   
   sudden?  Oh well, OS/2, Linux, etc...  they fade into history because every   
   one wants there Windows Computer...     
      
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