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its all about the APIs ... how can a real OS keep 'em secret?
They should have mandated that any streaming media server and client that holds more than, say, 2% market share must support a particular standard, lets say MPEG2 or MPEG4.

But the problem is MS using its leverage over the market to subvert standards ... they did it with Kerberos, LDAP, media, HTML, Java, and the list could go on and on!

And support must be equal for both the mandated standard and any other closed, proprietary standard.

That certainly is part of the problem ...

The mandated standard must include a full set of APIs so that any client can be used with any server provided they both meet the standard.

That is 90% of the remedy IMO ... they can create as many hokey standards as they want as long as they make 'em "open" to all to use. Force this and the incentive to create new propriewtary standards goes away.
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Microsoft bigger than European States  Nigel Johnstone | 06/27/04
The User Agreement Stinks  ParadigmOdyssey | 06/27/04
Pitpropping  pj-xmesh | 06/27/04
EU may struggle on this one  Fred Fredrickson | 06/27/04
Microsoft would have fought that "tooth and nail" also...  Plain Logic | 06/27/04
Of course  Fred Fredrickson | 06/27/04
its all about the APIs ... how can a real OS keep 'em secret?  oldskool | 06/27/04
You mean like UNIX, AIX, Solaris, etc????  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
Yes, likely he does  IT_User | 06/29/04
mandates  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
But, Why....  hal9000mx | 06/28/04
Not at all...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
But how...  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
i think  eLurker | 06/28/04
I think you've missed mine  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
It's so simple  Rick_K | 06/28/04
download them?  samp_z | 06/28/04
Government Regulation Better Than Free Markets?  P. Douglas | 06/28/04
Spot on post!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
You Are Correct  P. Douglas | 06/28/04
Proof Money can buy just about anything...  realitycheck101 | 06/27/04
A sad day for justice, indeed (NT)  Brasonte | 06/28/04
Not at all  IT_User | 06/28/04
Why's that? (NT)  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
US is losing...  hal9000mx | 06/28/04
uh ... just to be clear  eLurker | 06/28/04
At last some common sense...  Mike Cox | 06/27/04
8.6 - "unbiased figures from Microsoft" is a classic  Plain Logic | 06/27/04
8.2 "words cannot ilustrate it"- Nor can they scape the walls from the BS..  Xunil_Sierutuf | 06/27/04
8.8  el1jones | 06/28/04
MS must use a different definition of choice;-)  Richard Flude | 06/27/04
MS Double-speak  Fred Fredrickson | 06/27/04
Or you do  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
MICROSOFT MUST BE CRUSHED  Jeff Spicoli | 06/27/04
Your opinion is just that - "spicioli"  Ardian Daka | 06/28/04
Good, so when Linux wipes out MS desktop monopoly...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 06/27/04
hA hA Ha Ha hA hA  PmAc_z | 06/28/04
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Chicken Little Scenario...  MacCanuck | 06/28/04
OR, the EU commision is just plain wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
Please clarify Bit/No Axe...  MacCanuck | 06/28/04
The EU will be crushed  FilledOut | 06/28/04
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I like your thinking!  B.O.F.H. | 06/28/04
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