Businesses Back Call For Naked PCs
News Earlier this week, the Globalisation Institute, a European thinktank, made a submission to the European Commission proposing that all PCs and laptops should be sold without an operating system in order to foster competition and bring down prices...
[September 28, 2007, 14:13]
EU Thinktank Calls For Naked PCs
News In a submission to the European Commission, the Globalisation Institute claimed that the lack of choice in desktop operating systems is a more central issue than that of bundled media players — the issue that sparked the Commission's antitrust...
[September 24, 2007, 13:27]
A Free Market For Free Software
Leader Although the Globalisation Institute is quite correct in saying that Microsoft's effective monopoly of the desktop is unfair to competitors and holds back the market, its proposed solution is no solution at all.
[September 24, 2007, 17:25]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Microsoft has responded to our request for comment after a "free-market" EU thinktank, the Globalisation Institute, recommended that all PCs in Europe should be sold without a preinstalled operating system (see the story here and our leader...
[September 25, 2007, 10:54]
