The Results of the EU’s Brilliant Campaign Against Microsoft

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A Great Success?

Thanks to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish consumers will soon be able to buy a less useful version of Windows XP. What a boon for Euro-consumers and what a good use of Microsoft’s resources to have to box up a less capable version just to satisfy a Euro-knucklehead.



3 Responses to “The Results of the EU’s Brilliant Campaign Against Microsoft”

  1. Dennis J. Tuchler

    It is a less useful version simply because it has fewer features — features that are easily provided by selecting among options that work well with Microsoft Windows and may be free of charge. The producers of these features, including the producers of the free applications, will be competing for adoption with added features or reliability or sedcurity (or all of these). I don’t see why this does not improve the eventual product available to the person who is purchasing the system. Of course, there is an expenditure of time involved in selecting the best application, but I doubt that it’s cost to the purchaser must be greater than the value gained by competition among providers of the applications in question.