emehrkay Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft#Settlement It was a good case and should have been seen through with a better result than an API that allowed for Maxaton or IE-tab in firefox. Kind of sketchy though. If the result would have been that OS vendors like MS or Apple couldn't bundle a browser, where is that line drawn? Could they bundle a calculator? A Screensaver? You get the point I am just upset that I have to deal with IE and its idiosyncrasies Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/78964-so-the-us-vs-microsoft-antitrust-case-solved-nothing-really/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Without having read the link you posted, if they don't bundle a browser with their OS, then how are people supposed to download one? I doubt most normal users are able to use the terminal/command line to do that. One of the first things I do after having installed Windows is to open Internet Explorer, go to http://getfirefox.com and download and install Firefox. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/78964-so-the-us-vs-microsoft-antitrust-case-solved-nothing-really/#findComment-399724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcdarkmage Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Without having read the link you posted, if they don't bundle a browser with their OS, then how are people supposed to download one? I doubt most normal users are able to use the terminal/command line to do that. One of the first things I do after having installed Windows is to open Internet Explorer, go to http://getfirefox.com and download and install Firefox.Here here! The other day I was trying to show my mom something on YouTube. having a big enough screen on my fathers computer, I went to use it. One thing you must know about my dad, he is usually one of the first people to adopt new OS's when they come out, so naturally he had Vista. He absolutely refuses to use anything but IE. YouTube didn't want to work in IE (kept hanging up) so I installed FF on there (much to my father yelling that it is a worthless program). I still had problems because his version of Vista didn't like me installing the (flash?) player software for FF. There are people who swear by Vista, but I am still using XP. Getting fed up with my dad's computer, we switched over to my mom's (which had XP and FF on it . . . thanks to me!) and watched the video (plus others) with no problems. Thank you FireFox! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/78964-so-the-us-vs-microsoft-antitrust-case-solved-nothing-really/#findComment-399794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emehrkay Posted November 27, 2007 Author Share Posted November 27, 2007 Without having read the link you posted, if they don't bundle a browser with their OS, then how are people supposed to download one? I doubt most normal users are able to use the terminal/command line to do that. One of the first things I do after having installed Windows is to open Internet Explorer, go to http://getfirefox.com and download and install Firefox. Where they go to choose their OS, they can choose their browser. Remember aol cds? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/78964-so-the-us-vs-microsoft-antitrust-case-solved-nothing-really/#findComment-400393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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