> The game is different in PCs and Microsoft has a different position on lockdown there. This is because of the anti-trust action against them. Everyone remem

> The game is different in PCs and Microsoft has a different position on lockdown there. This is because of the anti-trust action against them. Everyone remembers the Navigator part of the case, but there was also the case of them preventing Hitachi from releasing machines with BeOS installed as the default operating system. By the time Be was awarded damages, they had run out of cash and shut down. So don't think it's because MS perceive the game as different; it's because they lost in the courts. And I would imagine that any of the vendors would do the same if they could, regardless of architecture.