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1. MS to Pull WinXP(?)
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MS is threatening to pull WinXP as a result of the non-settled states that still have a suite against them claiming that doing so will hurt industry and business. I thought that is what is being done by MS with WinXP with its bundled software and its 'slight slap on the hand' judgement from the DOJ?
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Date: 06 Mar, 2002 on 20:35
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Hmm.. since you're in the states how has the press and media made out this last issue for Microsoft? Press tends at least here in Sweden only report the minimalistic of story. To tell another story that might not been reported yet in the states in that both Ericsson (Sweden) and Nokia (Finland) has both two expressed their fear for Microsoft approach to the mobile/cellular phone market. I think that we here also can count in Sony since we have the co-op resulting Sony Ericsson Corp. Microsoft has won the desktop war, question here is if they will win the mobile war as well. So far nothing hasn't really stopped Microsoft and the cover by press I feel is a bit short sometime.

/Kim

Date: 07 Mar, 2002 on 16:20
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I get some news from http://www.computeruser.com which does not seem afraid of MS. This is where I found some conseguences of the DOJ settlement that actually helps MS and hurts the competition. There are a handfull of states that did not settle since it will hurt them more than it will help them. It is because of these states wanting a better settlement that MS made the threat of withdrawing WinXP. If you search http://www.computeruser.com , you might find the article that I mentioned. They mention that MS is already demanding more for its software from those who install it on their products. There is even mention of 'copyright infringement' that a company can not bring against MS since it is in the 'settlement' to allow MS to do so if they want to. This is from my memory so it might be better to check the article itself. I will look for a url to post here.

I hope that MS does not do to cell phones what they are doing to desktops. They are trying to do the same with game machines but I hope the competition is too great for them (I hope it is true of cell phones [who needs a cell phone that is unstable and 'crashes' every so often]).


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Date: 08 Mar, 2002 on 16:51
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http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2101,3,1,1,0101,02.html

This is a link to the 'settlement' that MS received from the DOJ. There are very few computer magazines who will state it like the Computer User magazine/newspaper.


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Date: 08 Mar, 2002 on 17:02
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Computer User has a e-mail mailing list one could subscribe to. It is pretty good.

TomLeeM


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Date: 26 Mar, 2002 on 20:10
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