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South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
News The Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a 33 billion won m) fine on Microsoft and ordered the company to unbundle Windows Microsoft is now required to unbundle the Windows Media Service from its server OS and deliver two new versions of...
[December 7, 2005, 9:25]
EC Will Force BT To Unbundle By Year End
News The European Commission goes head to head with BT (quote: BT) Wednesday, forcing the telco to unbundle the local loop six months ahead of its planned date. It has been changed to a regulation which will require all member states to unbundle their...
[July 12, 2000, 12:02]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback Mr. Mendez seems to think you can remove any M$ programs you don't want Try it and see how far you get. M$ designed their product so everything is tied together to prevent competition. They are not in the business to share market, they are in...
[December 7, 2005, 13:55]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback The article blames Microsoft for stealing most of the "Real Networks" customer base. That may be true for some, but not for all. I used the Real Player for a year or more after it was introduced. I liked it and was very happy with its performance.
[December 7, 2005, 10:43]
Easynet Vows To Unbundle More Of Britain
Talkback Wow 80 exchanges is going to make a great deal of difference! I expect they'll be in and around urban locales so absolutely no benefit to those of us in the rural, seemingly third class, community. It's about time the Government forced BT to stop...
[January 13, 2004, 18:24]
Easynet Vows To Unbundle More Of Britain
Talkback All well and good but this is NOTHING compared to what's available to the home user in Japan for LESS than we are paying here in the UK for 0.5Mb It's another case of ROB Rip Off Britain !
[January 13, 2004, 16:13]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback im not microsofts biggest fan, but it seems unfairs that they have been ordered to place links to competing software in the os, which has been claimed would make it fair, i have never seen a link to media player on any of the realnetworks products...
[December 8, 2005, 11:47]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback David, A house with a bedroom is a poor analogy. It's more like - if you dare use cable TV, your house will fall down. Messenger is not bundled, it's built into admin and networking services. It's not impossible to disable it - but tricky (thanks...
[December 7, 2005, 14:18]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback We need to be clear on what bundling means. Simply supplying applications on top of the operating system is fine. After all, Linux distros and Apple do it. However, Microsoft do not simply bundle IE/Messenger/WMP with Windows.
[December 7, 2005, 12:48]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback Bill, WMP does "phone home" and it may be that your third-party firewall has been programmed to let that process get through. How much do you really know about the "Generic Host process" anyway? Just as an example.
[December 7, 2005, 12:24]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback The Korean decision may however simply fade away unenforced like the similar EU and US DOJ decisions. The EU case seems to have run out into the sand this summer when MS told the court to first put the case on hold and then replaced the judge.
[December 7, 2005, 11:57]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
Talkback I can't blame any country for feeling suspicious about American products occupying their workplace, but I feel that Microsoft's decision to bundle their products isn't criminal. As a manufacturer, it makes sense that the only way to be certain...
[December 7, 2005, 11:39]
Easynet Vows To Unbundle More Of Britain
News Easynet is planning to start offering its broadband services from a further 80 local telephone exchanges this year, in a drive to continue competing with BT in the wholesale broadband market. The telco announced on Monday that it plans to extend...
[January 12, 2004, 16:35]
Netscape To Unbundle Browser
News The browser-cum-groupware vendor is working on a plan to separate Navigator 4.x from its Communicator client suite and give back to users what they once had -
[August 4, 1997, 10:05]
Microsoft To Unbundle Active Directory
News Microsoft is expanding capability of its directory technology to allow customers to more easily add new applications to their network. The directory technology essentially provides a network manager with a central database to store and manage...
[July 19, 2002, 7:31]
How The EC's Ruling Will Affect Longhorn
News The European Union's decision to force Microsoft to unbundle its media software from Windows could constitute a legal precedent that would affect the company's future products. If -- following appeal -- Microsoft is required to unbundle components...
[March 24, 2004, 13:15]
Oftel Says July 2001, 'delay' Won't Affect UK
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel announced Tuesday that it requires British Telecom to unbundle its local loop by July 2001. Sarker thinks Oftel should have made BT unbundle the local loop faster. Edmonds stressed that if BT was able to unbundle the loop...
[November 30, 1999, 14:30]
A Year Ago: Oftel Says July 2001 'delay' Won't Affect UK
News Edmonds stressed that if BT was able to unbundle the loop earlier than the July deadline, Oftel would ensure it did so. Telecoms watchdog Oftel announced Tuesday that it requires British Telecom to unbundle its local loop by July 2001.
[November 30, 2000, 6:05]
Microsoft Hits Back At Opera Antitrust Claims
News On Friday Microsoft hit back, indicating that it would not willingly unbundle IE from Windows. Opera asked the Commission to force Microsoft to unbundle IE from Windows, and to carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop.
[December 14, 2007, 11:48]
The Internet Service Provider Is Dead. Long Live The Internet!
Talkback For the economics to work it's got to unbundle BT's exchanges, and BT will do everything it can within the rules to slow the Carphone Warehouse bandwagon down. "Carphone Warehouse could still come unstuck.
[June 12, 2006, 11:45]
