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This would be Microsoft, willfully using their application dominance to force a migration to a Microsoft OS. However, if you consider the fact that more applications exist today that rival Microsoft, and that Mac is starting to take marketshare away from Microsoft, then Microsoft would have proof that they are not a monopoly and have the right to exploit this as anti-competitive behavior. Whereas with Netscape, they managed to kill the market by using desktop dominance.


This is actually more marketing for Apple to say, "Look, Microsoft wants to kill us, so apparently we are doing something right"

IE and Windows Media Player and MSN Messenger are not money making products for Microsoft, they only help to sell their OS and kill the market for other softwares in those fields. The only one that does kill business for Microsoft would be MSN, but let's face it, MSN wasn't that much of a money maker for Microsoft anyway.
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Guess M$ can't clean up after there mess  djcobb44 | 01/12/06
awesome  Jeff Spicoli | 01/12/06
This Was Already True Before WMP OSX Was Canned  Edward Meyers | 01/12/06
Incomprehensible  Richard Flude | 01/12/06
M$ is a joke  DarthRidiculous | 01/12/06
Wrong Information  ShadeTree | 01/13/06
I don't care to count those, but you missed...  nucrash | 01/13/06
Makes sense  PB_z | 01/12/06
Doesn't make sense  tic swayback | 01/13/06
Plans for VirtualPC?  FirstNLastN | 01/12/06
who cares  toxicfreak | 01/12/06
Been persuaded...  mikeybrass | 01/13/06
As said before, you weren't using it  Boot_Agnostic | 01/13/06
Mac support (you mean)  314 | 01/13/06
Reading Microsoft like a book...  nucrash | 01/13/06
This is news?  Rick_K | 01/13/06
here's a tissue (continue crying...)  314 | 01/13/06
Monopoly abuse?  tic swayback | 01/13/06
Pretty much...  nucrash | 01/13/06
WMP is a money maker  tic swayback | 01/13/06
Then Microsoft just wants to be competitive  nucrash | 01/13/06
Monopoly restrictions  tic swayback | 01/13/06
Apple is still Paranoid  nucrash | 01/13/06
It's not paranoid if they're really out to get you  tic swayback | 01/13/06
Flip4Mac is nice  tic swayback | 01/13/06
here's a tissue (continue crying...)  314 | 01/13/06
Fair is fair  tic swayback | 01/13/06
My idea...  314 | 01/13/06
Why a player for the Mac makes sense  tic swayback | 01/13/06
Can't compare the two  NonZealot | 01/13/06
The Latest Version is Not Supported  Edward Meyers | 01/13/06
Why give up 10-20% of the market?  tic swayback | 01/13/06
20%-30%  Edward Meyers | 01/13/06
They Want To Use Media To Force You Into Windows X  Edward Meyers | 01/13/06
Oh happy day!  Userama | 01/13/06
Still can't watch MSNBC video on it.  mlindl | 01/14/06
Do you people share a common brain stem?  ti994aer | 01/16/06

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