Stories tagged "monopolist"

"Intel’s crimes, however, are better characterised using the Vista collusion, which is the most recent and thus freshest example of a pattern that went on for many years"

"It’s a known fact that those who are not able to move forward are gradually falling behind. They sometimes don’t even realise it. Sometimes they enter a stage of denial or they try to swallow the ocean of change"

"Microsoft will leave them unpatched unless or until there is an attack exploiting them, i.e. when it’s too late. It is not only vain but it’s also irresponsible. It also enables Microsoft to ‘massage’ and lie about security using meaningless figu

"Corporations must not taint public institutions like academia, but they increasingly do. Microsoft is a major culprit in that respect"

"Observers have warned for quite a long time that not only will OOXML lead to confusion, legal problems and corruption of the process but it will also lead to eternal incompatibilities"

"All in all, this has been a brutal and despicable display of power. Some of the moves involved should be illegal and considered white-collar crime"

"The agenda is disguised under more inviting terms like “open source”, which it is not"

"Microsoft faces some tough choices as Windows continues to lose mind share and market share. Its main cash cows are applications that run on Windows. Without Windows, how can high revenues be sustained?"

"This latest decision which is made in retrospect may be — as one must remember — carried out by an ISO that is already occupied by self-serving cronies who perfume their own sins and hope for history to dissolve gracefully, then be rewritten"

"If Microsoft engages with countries as though it’s the Secret Services and then refuses to tell what was signed, perhaps it’s time to call the Secret Services and have them crack down on crooked politicians and the company/ies they engage with"