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Story: Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims

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Unbundling vs. OmniBundling

I'm not sure it's a case of unbundling, more a case of bundling other products to allow user's a greater choice - OmniBundling.

Microsoft's products are now ubiquitous in our society and with great power comes great responsibility!

I've worked as an IT Helpdesk Support Agent and I can tell you from experience that many, many internet users dont know what the term 'browser' means, they simply view IE as 'THE way to surf the web' - they've never heard of or imagined alternatives. They implicitly trust Microsoft and they trust the blue E on the desktop. Microsoft do their best to perpetuate this ignorance as a way of covering up IE's failings.

If Opera and Firefox were installed on a machine fresh-out-of-the-box people would click them, people would try them out, people would realise there are alternatives and then they could choose what they wanted to use. That's fair!

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