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Europe Says Bye to OS Monopoly

11/02/2007  
Relevance: 8.47
Looks like Europe is collectively ready to bring Microsoft's monopoly down so that other OS options will have a chance to flourish. Well, at least one group of like-minded people have managed to begin clearing the playing field some.
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Chrome is good news for the ABM crowd

09/06/2008  
Relevance: 7.32
The release of Google's Chrome browser is a welcome development for those who belong to the ABM category - the Anyone But Microsoft group. They don't mind a monopoly, they just don't like the Microsoft monopoly. The prospect of having Google dictate the course of their digital lives is apparently pleasing to these folk, who see the company as some kind of cuddly teddy bear - a big bear, sure, one that embraces you, fine - but, hey, it's a warm, soft embrace so who cares?
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Is the BBC Perpetuating the Microsoft Monopoly?

02/09/2007  
Relevance: 7.24
LXer Feature: 20-Oct-2006The BBC recently released its Public Value Test for"public consultation" with respect to its proposed on-demand services. The problem is that, while the EU has hammered Microsoft for using its monopoly unfairly, the BBC is poised to prop up the convicted monopolist with a Windows-only service.
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Creating a Free Market for Personal Computer Platforms

10/16/2007  
Relevance: 6.94
You may not be aware of this, but you’re probably reading this editorial using a product sourced from perhaps the world’s largest monopoly market. A monopoly more profound and more ingrained than any run by a former government telco or a gilded-age robber-baron. The market? Personal computer platforms. The product? Microsoft’s Windows.
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When All Merits Fail, Use an Intellectual Monopoly

08/06/2008  
Relevance: 5.92
Microsoft turns out not to be a fan of open source after all.
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Linux Threatens Microsoft Monopoly Overseas

06/16/2008  
Relevance: 5.27
Totally ignoring the fact that this type of news is becoming the new norm everywhere but in the US, it does present a very serious question - how does Microsoft compete with free?
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Middle-aged myopia

05/05/2007  
Relevance: 5.21
In hindsight, it was correct of the US administration not to pursue plans to break up Microsoft for past anticompetitive behaviour. The company is slowly losing its monopoly of desktop software and on the Web it is foundering against Google.
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Copyright law reinforces monopoly, Open Source Society warns MPs

05/14/2007  
Relevance: 5.08
Technological protection could close PC platforms to open source operating systems
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Eben Moglen: It's not easy being a monopoly

05/31/2007  
Relevance: 5.05
This is the third in our series of video segments from our interview with Professor Eben Moglen. The way he tells it, there are lots of reasons to feel sympathy for Microsoft.
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Lest we forget the REAL FUD [tm]

08/14/2008  
Relevance: 5.02
We all know the term“FUD“, don’t we? If you haven’t heard of it, it means “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt”, and it was created a big software monopoly, often headlined “Get the facts”. Some years ago, I got the real facts. And the real FUD.
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