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Story: Microsoft awaits punitive EU judgment

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As far as i can tell, people are and have always been free to choose and run any windows compatible media player on their windows operating system. People are also free to write, run, purchase and use any other operation systems, primarily Mac and Linux with alternative media players etc.

The fact that Microsoft bundles it's own player with the OS is simply added value. If competitors make a better product it will win in the end.

Even if MS was different companies, they would work together so closely as to enable tight integration between the OS and software modules (browsers, media players) running atop the OS.

Again, there is choice. If you don't like Windows, use a Mac, run Linux. If you don't like WMP, run Real Player or QuickTime. Where's the monopoly, isn't it just a marketing head start that MS have?

I would second the other point that WMP is actually not a bad media player and that this also may have had some effect in its market share as well as the bundling with os

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