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even when your main competitor offers similar service for free is really disgusting corporate behavior Microsoft was lynched in an antitrust trial for giving

even when your main competitor offers similar service for free is really disgusting corporate behavior Microsoft was lynched in an antitrust trial for giving IE away to compete with Netscape. I think your attitude is evidence of really disgusting consumer behavior. Between you and every other whiner, Microsoft is damned if it does something, and damned if it doesn't.

will_brown 14y ago
>Microsoft was lynched in an antitrust trial for giving IE away to compete with Netscape. Living in a country that actually permits hanging as a legal punishment, and with 2 States that currently practice hanging I would say your word choice is a little more exaggerated than mine. Apparently the only one to ever survive being "lynched", MS is still alive and well, in fact if I am not mistaken MS is currently giving IE away for free, the very behavior MS was lynched for. On top of MS currently giving IE away for free, the software is also free to use not requiring a paid membership, EXCEPT IN THIS ONE LITTLE EXCEPTION THAT I POSTED ABOUT. However, you seem to suggest MS is justified in charging Xbox owners to use IE, and Xbox owners ONLY, even though IE is free in all other circumstances and on all other devices, all as the result of their anti-trust suit in the 90's before Xbox was even in production. >I think your attitude is evidence of really disgusting consumer behavior. Instead of attacking me personally for my observation that as far as I can tell is 100% accurate, why not at least show me another company that manufactures hardware, requires you to access the internet through their browser only, and charges a monthly subscription for the browser. Then at least you can point out this type of corporate behavior is not "disgusting", but just the corporate norm. Even MS does not replicate this behavior on the only other hardware they manufacture (the Surface). Moreover, MS does not charge Surface owners a monthly fee to use IE or otherwise access content nor are you limited to IE as your browser on the Surface. >even when your main competitor offers similar service for free FYI I made this comment in support of a paid MS Live Account for online game play and certain content, even though their main competitor, PS3, offers their Xbox Live equivalent for free. So do not give me the MS "damned if it does, damned if it doesn't" spiel , especially when I complimented Xbox Live as so good they can charge when others give it away for free; however, for simple and obvious reasons I will not extend that support from paid Xbox gaming to paid IE.

will_brown 14y ago

>Microsoft was lynched in an antitrust trial for giving IE away to compete with Netscape. Living in a country that actually permits hanging as a legal punishment, and with 2 States that currently practice hanging I would say your word choice is a little more exaggerated than mine. Apparently the only one to ever survive being "lynched", MS is still alive and well, in fact if I am not mistaken MS is currently giving IE away for free, the very behavior MS was lynched for. On top of MS currently giving IE away for free, the software is also free to use not requiring a paid membership, EXCEPT IN THIS ONE LITTLE EXCEPTION THAT I POSTED ABOUT. However, you seem to suggest MS is justified in charging Xbox owners to use IE, and Xbox owners ONLY, even though IE is free in all other circumstances and on all other devices, all as the result of their anti-trust suit in the 90's before Xbox was even in production. >I think your attitude is evidence of really disgusting consumer behavior. Instead of attacking me personally for my observation that as far as I can tell is 100% accurate, why not at least show me another company that manufactures hardware, requires you to access the internet through their browser only, and charges a monthly subscription for the browser. Then at least you can point out this type of corporate behavior is not "disgusting", but just the corporate norm. Even MS does not replicate this behavior on the only other hardware they manufacture (the Surface). Moreover, MS does not charge Surface owners a monthly fee to use IE or otherwise access content nor are you limited to IE as your browser on the Surface. >even when your main competitor offers similar service for free FYI I made this comment in support of a paid MS Live Account for online game play and certain content, even though their main competitor, PS3, offers their Xbox Live equivalent for free. So do not give me the MS "damned if it does, damned if it doesn't" spiel , especially when I complimented Xbox Live as so good they can charge when others give it away for free; however, for simple and obvious reasons I will not extend that support from paid Xbox gaming to paid IE.