Comments on: Opera EU Antitrust suit against Microsoft http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/ Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:24:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Earl Moore http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-18893 Earl Moore Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:58:50 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/#comment-18893 Hi Paul, Good example with Java...I didn't think of that one when I was writing this post. There are lot of shops that when MS says jump they don't even ask how high. It's very hard to get off the MS wagon once you've bought into it. That's the reason MS can get away with most of this "bad behavior." Hi Paul,
Good example with Java…I didn’t think of that one when I was writing this post.

There are lot of shops that when MS says jump they don’t even ask how high. It’s very hard to get off the MS wagon once you’ve bought into it.

That’s the reason MS can get away with most of this “bad behavior.”

]]> By: paul http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-18892 paul Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:31:27 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/#comment-18892 Yes, this is typical MS strategy. Remember the big Java debacle. Sun let MS license the Java name, as long as their version adhered 100% to the standard. Actually MS had a faster JVM, for Windoze, that was a pleasure to use; however, that was just the 'demo', so to speak. When MS came out with Visual J+, it had all types of MS specific hooks into the operating system. If you wrote a program in VJ+ and used certain 'enhancements', it wouldn't work on any other platform other than Windoze. So much for write once, run anywhere! I'm glad that MS lost that one and was booted out of the Java arena. My wife said that her department, which uses .NET, will start taking Silverlight training in January. Wachovia, for some reason, is a huge MS shop, while Bank of America, is seriously Java. Yes, this is typical MS strategy. Remember the big Java debacle. Sun let MS license the Java name, as long as their version adhered 100% to the standard. Actually MS had a faster JVM, for Windoze, that was a pleasure to use; however, that was just the ‘demo’, so to speak. When MS came out with Visual J+, it had all types of MS specific hooks into the operating system. If you wrote a program in VJ+ and used certain ‘enhancements’, it wouldn’t work on any other platform other than Windoze. So much for write once, run anywhere!

I’m glad that MS lost that one and was booted out of the Java arena. My wife said that her department, which uses .NET, will start taking Silverlight training in January. Wachovia, for some reason, is a huge MS shop, while Bank of America, is seriously Java.

]]> By: Earl Moore http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-18891 Earl Moore Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:09:59 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/#comment-18891 Alan, Thanks, you're correct! Alan,
Thanks, you’re correct!

]]> By: Alan Hogan http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-18890 Alan Hogan Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:54:14 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/12/13/opera-eu-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft/#comment-18890 It's not an antitrust suit, but rather a complaint. It’s not an antitrust suit, but rather a complaint.

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