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Story: Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims

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Cars Are For Driving... Computers Are For Life; There Is No Comparison

Yet again, we're not talking about cars and simple products. Look beyond the brand!

We're talking about learning tools, leisure tools, business tools - things that are invading culture more than cars ever did! Microsoft has a social responsibility towards accessibility of information and interoperability of devices for the future of.....well everyone!

This is no longer big-brand politics, this is our lives, our civilisation. Windows is in schools, it runs businesses, hospitals and libraries. It is foolish to compare Microsoft's closed minded approach to standards and choice to the petty feuding of Car Manufacturers.

The European Courts have come down like a ton of bricks on Microsoft because they realise the impact it has upon our lives and our first footsteps into this new digital age. Before child-labour laws people said "if kids want to climb and clean chimneys; let them". Now we consider that cruel exploitation.

Soon laws will prevent megacorporations from limiting accessibility and choice and restore good old-fashioned competition. Maybe then people will understand that what Microsoft is doing now is just not fair-play. Microsoft's economic, social and political power is felt everywhere, the same cannot be said of Honda, Ford, GM or BMW.

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