Microsoft just never gives up.

[techs]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27261
US District Court Judge has slammed Microsoft for delaying a project to improve technical documentation for its communications protocols.
...part of the.. out-of-court settlement approved by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and was supposed to help Microsoft comply with the her order to share proprietary communications protocols with rivals.

That was in 2002 and so far Microsoft has been unable to finish the project and has asked for an extension.

She also wanted to know why Microsoft had proposed to portable music player manufacturers that if they shipped Windows Media Player in their software packages, they could include only it and no competing media software

 

[cwjerome]

Yeah... they never give up. Trying to increase market share, and *GASP!* profits.

 

[loup garou]

Uh..so what? Why doesn't Apple get any flak for locking people into iTunes?

 

[fornax]

Because Apple did not enter into agreement with the court not to do that?

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: fornax
Because Apple did not enter into agreement with the court not to do that?

and they're not a monopoly?

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: techs
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27261
US District Court Judge has slammed Microsoft for delaying a project to improve technical documentation for its communications protocols.
...part of the.. out-of-court settlement approved by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and was supposed to help Microsoft comply with the her order to share proprietary communications protocols with rivals.

That was in 2002 and so far Microsoft has been unable to finish the project and has asked for an extension.

She also wanted to know why Microsoft had proposed to portable music player manufacturers that if they shipped Windows Media Player in their software packages, they could include only it and no competing media software

Your source is the Inquirer, which is more Anti-Microsoft than Slashdot. If you go to a normal news source, you will find out that Microsoft has over 30 employees working on the project, and even the DOJ has admitted that they are not trying to delay, it is just incredibly complex.

But who cares about facts when it's so much more fun to... do whatever it is people do here?

 

[JTWill]

Originally posted by: techs
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27261
US District Court Judge has slammed Microsoft for delaying a project to improve technical documentation for its communications protocols.
...part of the.. out-of-court settlement approved by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and was supposed to help Microsoft comply with the her order to share proprietary communications protocols with rivals.

That was in 2002 and so far Microsoft has been unable to finish the project and has asked for an extension.

She also wanted to know why Microsoft had proposed to portable music player manufacturers that if they shipped Windows Media Player in their software packages, they could include only it and no competing media software

LINUX.....period......the most evil OS ever concieved....how dare they charge nothing. Evil anti capatilistic punks is going to swat the butterfly. Just takes time....

My favourite LINUX site
http://usalug.org/phpBB2/index.php
USA

 

[Strk]

Is that from the law suit dealing with that garbage from Real?

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: JTWill

Originally posted by: techs
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27261
US District Court Judge has slammed Microsoft for delaying a project to improve technical documentation for its communications protocols.
...part of the.. out-of-court settlement approved by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and was supposed to help Microsoft comply with the her order to share proprietary communications protocols with rivals.

That was in 2002 and so far Microsoft has been unable to finish the project and has asked for an extension.

She also wanted to know why Microsoft had proposed to portable music player manufacturers that if they shipped Windows Media Player in their software packages, they could include only it and no competing media software

LINUX.....period......the most evil OS ever concieved....how dare they charge nothing. Evil anti capatilistic punks is going to swat the butterfly. Just takes time....

My favourite LINUX site
http://usalug.org/phpBB2/index.php
USA

LOL is this a joke? it's free and no one uses it. Has to be pretty crappy if you can't even give it away FREE!