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Story: Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
Predatory monopoly abuse
He forgot to mention MS's big guns in their effort to stop competition from VMWare. The primary methods being used are changing the licensing terms for use of MS products as well bundling features to existing monopoly products. Hopefully the next political administration will engage in appropriate enforcement of anti trust laws and try to help restore competition to the computer industry.
Judge Jacksons comments at the end of the US anti trust case are as appropriate today as they were the day he wrote them "Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's actions have conveyed to every enterprise with the potential to innovate in the computer industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM, Compaq, Intel, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such companies and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and businesses that exhibit the potential to threaten Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest."
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