Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft?

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Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>Adalbert Goertz writes ...
>> 
>> yes
> ....
>
>     Tend to disagree. Microsoft has done a good job of delivering a decent
>standard OS for PC machines. If they were close to having a monopoly it is
>because millions of users 'voted' for Microsoft products.

I have to agree with Adalbert and disagree with you on this one.

I vote yes.

Although I "voted" for the Windows 95 OS, I did not vote for the IE
browser.  I want the option of using another browser, but as
another user already pointed out, there are conflicts between
Netscape's product and Windows 98.  I hate the way they stitched
IE into Windows 98 so that you can't take it out without messing
up the system.  Apparently, even installing a competing browser
sometimes messes things up.

I've always used Netscape products and have gotten used to
them.  I want the option to use a browser and an OS from
different companies.  If the only way to do this is to break up
Microsoft into one company for browser, one company for the
office programs, and one company for the OS, so be it.