Originally posted by: Lemon lawbut there are times when Microsoft needs bashed because they have a defacto monopoly in the marketplace.
Why?
For better or worse, the USA has to most open free market on this Planet.
As long as there is No legal way that stifle open market.
Microsoft has to be Bashed because the competition is Not good enough?
The fact is that WordStar, Lotus123, WordPerfect, and some more, completely dominated the market in their time. IBM per-se was it in the PC arena for few years too.
They are No more because someone offered better more like product.
Nero dominates the Burning market, for similar reason, and is not even a USA company.
In the early 80 when DOS was the dominate in the PC, it did not offer good OS management utilities.
Peter Norton saw the need and came with is famous Norton Utilizes.
All the pundits in the computer magazines clabbered Microsoft for not providing this tools and force people to spend more money and buy 3rd party utilities.
Later in the game Norton sold is company to Symantec.
Now Symantec starts to go out of business, few of the old pundits (the ones that years ago bashed MS for not providing Utilities), and many new one Now bashing again, but this time it why Microsoft stifle competition, because they are more and more offer such utilities.
Make a lot of sense Ha?:shocked: