I find it hard to justify continuing this myself... It served its purpose and allowed other providers to catch up, but now MS is unable to put features in its OS that are a standard part of other operating systems. This whole deal hit a low point for me when MS had to reduce security on vista to ensure that third party antivirus programs could still be run.
If a competitor can build something into the software, MS should be able to as well. Apple, for example, has gone far beyond the original complaint against MS (tying near-monopoly products with other systems so that success in one requires the other), but they have only recently begun to come under scrutiny.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I find it hard to justify continuing this myself...
It served its purpose and allowed other providers to catch up, but now MS is unable to put features in its OS that are a standard part of other operating systems.
This whole deal hit a low point for me when MS had to reduce security on vista to ensure that third party antivirus programs could still be run.
If a competitor can build something into the software, MS should be able to as well. Apple, for example, has gone far beyond the original complaint against MS (tying near-monopoly products with other systems so that success in one requires the other), but they have only recently begun to come under scrutiny.