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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (20774)	8/29/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Here are a couple of articles on OS "choice" that I don't remember ever having been posted here: To determine if Microsoft has a desktop OS monopoly, ask if you have a real choice infoworld.com Microsoft allows OEMs to go to the bathroom infoworld.com When Microsoft, or those who come to its defense, say people have a choice, they speak as if we were Microsoft's customers. We're not. Microsoft's primary customer is the original equipment manufacturer, or OEM. The OEM installs, configures, and even supports Microsoft Windows. If you want to measure whether Microsoft really has a monopoly, you have to ask yourself whether its customers, the OEMs -- not users -- have a reasonable choice. Microsoft can only dictate OEM policy because from a practical standpoint, it has no competition. The OEM cannot easily replace Windows. So when Microsoft says it wants the "freedom to innovate," remember that Microsoft means it wants the freedom to have a dictatorship over what its customer, the OEM, can and cannot do. Plain and simple, Microsoft has and wants to maintain monopoly power over its customer.