Now what kind of a farce is this. If I had a monopoly of 90% market share, a product that is pervasive and a toehold in every other related market, I’d pretty much figure that my continued existence was in the bag. Especially if somehow worse came to worse, I could simply sell the competition’s product.
Which is exactly the situation Microsoft finds itself in. Even if they had to capitulate to the Linux crowd, they can actually sell Linux. So if they loose, they’re still the single most well monied software vendor with a pervasive presence in damn near every market.
So articles like this one make it look like someone’s taking out a little too much marketing spin. It’s bad enough that I can’t browse to anywhere on the internet without tripping over an MS ad. Now I have to put up with their flac showing up on my google news.
I’ve gotta wonder, is this all some kind of game to keep trust regulators off of crippling their monopoly? It’s almost like they’re trotting out non existant competition so they can spread through other markets without being hampered by trust regulation.
