I think your mind is preset to be against Microsoft.
In Canada, did FORD/GM/CRYSLER/HONDA/TOYOTA/BENZE/BMW...etc sell
cars with a default air conditions or car radios being pre installed ( What you called default) ? or you guys in Canada buy auto radios, air conditions separately ?
Having a major market share of a certain product is different than having a monopoly over that certain product. If Microsoft really had a monopoly in the OS , then it did not have to worry about Linux, Java, or NN. It is because Microsoft did not have the monopoly, so it worried. Your concept is a company had a dominate market share of a certain product is criminal, who taught you that in economics? If your concept is taken by the law, then we in business world will all be in big trouble in a big time, because any company with high growth will eventually have the major market share and will be taken as a criminal by the government. To prevent being taken as a criminal by the government, all companies with high growth had to artificially
limit their growth. A company's getting stronger and get more and more market share
is just a result of free competition, unless you are in a communist state which control everything, including how companies should conduct in business. Probably, that is why we did not see any successful Canadian companies in the world market , because they are all tightly regulated by the government, and as a result high unemployment rate( over 10%) and high tax burden(over 40%) for every hard working citizen. It is a shame !!!!!!!!
How can you predict whether Microsoft will lose or win in this case ? Did you get this impression from the medians or by reading every single written testimony of
the witness ? or just by your own imagination ? No one knows whether Microsoft will lose or win at this point, besides, even if Microsoft lost this round, there will be appeals after appeals to come, and it will be a long war, while Microsoft will continue to beat street estimation quarter after quarter. Maybe, someday , a Republican president will dismiss the stupid case. So, why worry ?
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