Microsoft v. Eurocrats -- Update
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Microsoft is ready to begin selling the product it had no desire to make but was forced to by the European Union:
I predict that sales of this new forced-labor OS will be somewhere between "zero" and "only what the E.U. bureaucracy itself buys."
One thing's for sure: Microsoft won't need any of these to ship this unnatural mutant software.
The world's largest software maker was forced to change its Windows OS as part of the European Union's landmark antitrust ruling.Of course, Microsoft committed only two crimes: (1) making a very good product at a very good price, and (2) not being European.
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Microsoft will make Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N — the "N" stands for "not with Media Player" — available to manufacturers on June 15 in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Versions in other languages ... will be available July 15.
I predict that sales of this new forced-labor OS will be somewhere between "zero" and "only what the E.U. bureaucracy itself buys."
One thing's for sure: Microsoft won't need any of these to ship this unnatural mutant software.
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Posted by KipEsquire on
9 June 2005
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