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If IE is bundled with the OS, their de facto monopoly in the OS market reduces innovation, competition and customer choice in the _browser_ market.

• petercooper 17y ago
  Does the bundling of Command Prompt reduce innovation and competition in the command line client market? Does Windows Explorer reduce innovation and competition in the file browser market?
  • Luc 17y ago
    That could be argued. It's a shades of grey thing. Some things stand out as bundled more than others - especially those that are obviously not part of an OS, for which a market exists etc.
    • access_denied 17y ago
      user of cli knows 'alternative package exists and can be installed for free' = true nearly 100% of the time; user of browser knows 'alternative ...';; returns "distinctions packages missing';
    • petercooper 17y ago
      Perhaps in the 90s a Web browser would have not obviously been part of an OS, but nowadays it's one of the simplest, yet most used, applications going and it makes sense to bundle one with any desktop-based OS. Come to think of it, I can't think of any current desktop-based OS that doesn't come with a Web browser installed by default.. The whole anti-competition lawsuit over this stuff was based on early 2000s assumptions. It's time to forget all about it now and let MS get on with it.