I've just finished fixing a computer where a virus had disabled Microsoft Security Essentials (and had altered IE's proxy configuration in order to hijack the user's web searches). MSSE was still there, but it didn't detect the virus if I started a scan from the command line, while its graphics interface would close shortly after launching it. It was the same problem that these guys were having almost two years ago. Like them, I had to install another antivirus to remove the 50+ instances of the virus that were lying undetected on the hard drive.

I hope that MS will fix the accuracy of MSSE, for an antivirus is essential to have on Windows (at least for non-technical users) and what the competition offers tends to be heavy, infested with nag screens and unwanted features. Somehow this reminds me of the days of DOS 6, when Microsoft had added a nice built-in antivirus to the OS (MSAV), but then stopped upgrading it, and removed it altogether from later versions of their OSes.

The EU antitrust commission fines companies from all around the world, and plenty of european ones. See for yourself http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/closed/en/ind1990.html .

IE bundled with Windows is useful. Windows preinstalled on every PC is useful.

I suspect that the antitrust commission has more precise and incisive instruments to find out if anything's wrong, than doing a couple of web searches. They're a serious institution and I think that Google have good lawyers.

This is just normal business behavior.

As long as you haven't a dominant position. Otherwise, it results in decreased competition, which is objectively bad for everyone. That's why Microsoft was forced to give other browsers the same chances as IE of being chosen by Windows users.

Islam is only 1400 years old, and the Muslim started fracturing at the very death of Muhammad, when they couldn't agree over who was his successor. The place where I live was taken back from the Muslim (by the Normans) exactly because they were fighting each other, in no way acting as a unified empire.

Many tech savvy users write Android applications, for instance. Others play Minecraft. Others contribute to OpenStreetMap. Others even use the Netbeans IDE, lazy them.

Which is what AlphaBro wanted us to uninstall.

6 - This is not "https proxying" at all, but you are at one end of a "remote desktop" session between your phone, which does not have html rendering capabilities, and the remote machine at Nokia that does the rendering, which obviously would not have any chance of doing its job if it hadn't access to the unencrypted data.

Actually, when Oracle added restrictions to Java's test suite in order to limit fragmentation, I heard quite a lot of "endless bitching" here on slashdot. And Google's restrictions are much more severe than Oracle's, so now I expect to see much more bitching here.

Yeah, you can still download the source code for the glory of reading it. And then you can't compile it unless you comply with Google's Oracle-like proprietary and restrictive license.

Those statistics include all kinds of Microsoft mobile OSes, including Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, which have been around for a long time, and in particular, one is as old as Bada, while the other is much older.

Even being dead, Bada still managed to sell 20% more than Windows Phone in Q3 2012 ( http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2237315 ) .

Samsung Bada phones cost about 20% less than Samsung Android phones based on equivalent hardware (see the Wave 3 vs the Galaxy S Plus for instance). People who buy phones for their out-of-the-box features might be interested in the saving.

As soon as you obtain a copy of it, you can copy, modify and use Red Hat's stuff without paying. It's free as in beer. It's completely compatible with open source.

In less free countries, Red Hat can not distribute patented code under the GPL license. Try to play an MP3 file on your Red Hat-developed Fedora distribution, you're in for a surprise.

Free as in freedom implies free as in beer. Having to pay a fee to obtain freedom is completely incompatible with open source.