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• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-04-01 14:32:03

  Groklaw has just published a good response too:
  
  

  
  
  Well, it's official, I take it. Android has won. Google has overturned Microsoft. Microsoft has now waved the white flag and admitted it is an also-ran in search and in mobile, and that it can't win on its own merits without outside help from regulators. That's what I get from its latest move, filing an antitrust complaint against Google with the EU Commission.
  
  You know what I think? I think it means Microsoft still doesn't understand why it got into antitrust hot water, still accepts no responsibility for what happened to the company. I understood that better when I read the Paul Allen excerpt from his book in Vanity Fair. The upper management are portrayed as ethically empty. That would explain why Microsoft now seems to think that all it takes is a competitor to complain, and Google will end up like it did. That leaves out a powerful factor, which is that Microsoft really did abuse its monopoly position and it did harm to the market, to cybersecurity, to customers, to competitors in ways that are disturbing to the rest of us. No one had to use partners and subsidiaries to cook up something to complain about to make it look like it was doing bad things. They really did them, and that is why they ended up in antitrust hot water.
  
  If you've forgotten, Groklaw has an entire page on Microsoft litigation, with a section on the antitrust matter before the EU Commission and another on the US v. Microsoft antitrust case here in America. Or just read the exhibits from the Comes v. Microsoft antitrust litigation that Groklaw is painstakingly putting into searchable plain text for historians, so no one will ever forget what really happened. Here are all the documents that survived the shredder in Caldera v. Microsoft.
  
  After you read all that, think about Google. It's not the same at all, is it? So this laughable conspiracy to try to hold Google's feet to the fire will not end the way it does in Microsoft's dreams, I don't think. Because Google isn't Microsoft. They come from different planets. And that will make all the difference.

• BenderBendingRodriguez

  2011-04-01 19:22:10

  Oh yes, read that one too. They practically sum up what is happening at Microsoft, "can't compete, sue them". I hope they won't make much damage anymore... The funniest thing is the hypocrisy of all this... Microsoft may have invented something in the past but now they are unable to invent or compete on merit.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-04-01 19:47:53

  They invented an anticompetitive business model for extracting a payment from each PC sold.

• TemporalBeing

  2011-04-04 19:52:58

  Agreed. The only thing Bill Gates ever did invent was suing ones way out of contracts in ones own favor. That's how MS got started with IBM & DOS - suing IBM for additional royalties when IBM/DOS systems sold better than expected, breaking their contract with IBM. It's all Microsoft has ever really done in addition to their EEE philosophy.

• BenderBendingRodriguez

  2011-04-01 00:40:11

  The original announcement from Brad Smith
  
  http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/03/30/adding-our-voice-to-concerns-about-search-in-europe.aspx

• BenderBendingRodriguez

  2011-04-01 00:17:58

  Thankfully people responded accordingly on the original announcement at blogs.technet.com
  
  No one buys into their story anymore, 80% of comments slam M$ for their actions, calling it hypocrisy etc.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-04-01 00:23:35

  Got a link?