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Very good point. MS has to be laughing here. Everybody focusing on Media
Player and IE, while they quietly use MS Office to cause interoperability problems and maintain the Windows monopoly. There is a reason that MS if fighting ODF tooth and nail and spending hundreds of millions on campaigns and lobbying. Microsoft understand they are making money hand over fist on Office, and that it also props up the other monopoly.

But, who will spend the money and file the complaints. Google? I kind of doubt they want the distraction or the cry-baby label, and there in lies the Microsoft advantage.

Also, the next big lock-in trick it Silverlight. Look for MS to give away dev tools, open the specs, help Novel with Moonlight, then, if there is ever a significant number of websites using it, they will slowly close it up and add undocumented extensions. Same thing with the PDF replacement.

Microsoft has a lot of tricks in their bag and neither the EU nor the DOJ will have any luck keeping up with them. Of course in the case of the DOJ, they are now her to HELP MS, and that won't change until 2008.
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Very good point. MS has to be laughing here. Everybody focusing on Media  DonnieBoy | 09/17/07
Spot on  Richard Flude | 09/17/07
Right, a break-up would have fixed it. But, MS dodged a bullet there.  DonnieBoy | 09/17/07
You anti MS people are also anti business  davedufour | 09/21/07
Even if there were a Linux version of MSO, I wouldn't touch it  critic-at-arms | 09/21/07
RE: Why Has Microsoft Office Evaded European, US Justice?  mhoover@... | 09/17/07
Does it really matter?  D. T. Schmitz | 09/17/07
I would think...  rapson | 09/17/07
Still, the dirty tricks with file formats basically close out competitors.  DonnieBoy | 09/17/07
Of course there are example!  NetArch. | 09/18/07
It was a Surprise to Redmond  mighetto | 09/17/07
Wow do you have it wrong!  ye | 09/17/07
Wow, really glad to hear that there are no other market forces than  DonnieBoy | 09/17/07
RE: Why Has Microsoft Office Evaded European, US Justice?  Wait A Minute Here | 09/17/07
Missing the issue  shis-ka-bob | 09/18/07
correction ...  shis-ka-bob | 09/18/07
Really good comments  stomfi@... | 09/19/07
Where do I start? happy  wolf_z | 09/18/07
???  pavka@... | 09/18/07
Just did...  mharr | 09/20/07
But I want to seperate function and format  shis-ka-bob | 09/18/07
RE: Why Has Microsoft Office Evaded European, US Justice?  SwashbucklingCowboy | 09/18/07
Perhaps ...  shis-ka-bob | 09/18/07
Those are possibilites...  SwashbucklingCowboy | 09/18/07
on other office suites ...  shis-ka-bob | 09/18/07
Yes, but...  SwashbucklingCowboy | 09/18/07
RE: Why Has Microsoft Office Evaded European, US Justice?  SFBayguy | 09/18/07
SIMPLE ANSWER  scrippen | 09/18/07
Evaded "Justice?" or politics?  lalogos | 09/21/07
Why Has Microsoft Office Evaded European, US Justice?  Beechcraft | 09/21/07

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