1) when you quote a message of mine, do not bold words that I have not bolded in my message. I have to question why you would want to alter the true intent of what I have posted here.
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2) I did not say that Verizon was the victim. The customers of Verizon are the victim here.
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So I'll repeat, when Microsoft says that they offer choice, keep in mind this agreement between Microsoft and Verizon in which users' choice is effectively eliminated. It appears to be typical of Microsoft's business dealings. When Microsoft is incapable of competing, it artificially eliminates its competitors via lawyers.

From now on, whenever Microsoft talks of providing choice, remember this deal in which Microsoft appears to have removed any choice of search from Verizon's users.

If only Microsoft spent half as much time on improving Windows as they spend on this "research".

That Get Health Reform Right group is spamming the local TV waves with their commercials, not giving even a slightest hint of their financial backing.

Um, dude, YOU ARE NOT a customer of Facebook.

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I never said I was a customer of Facebook.

They do not "get" it. I am convinced Facebook does not want to preserve the privacy of its users. When I went to Facebook last night, I was presented with a pop up menu to select my new privacy options. All the defaults were set to looser privacy than I had previously set for my account. I had to manually restore the stricter privacy settings.

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Facebook does not care about the privacy of its users. Get used to it.

The problem is the bundling of the lines, services, and content.

into three separate companies:

1. infrastructure, i.e., the wire and fibre on the poles
2. ISP and phone services
3. content provider

This will allow for competition for those people who are stuck with Comcast being the sole provider.

I use Privoxy. I was thinking more about the poor souls who are still subject to ads.

If google really wants to speed up the browsing experience, they would work on speeding up the slow ad servers.....

Yes. The only people who have a different opinion tend to be the employers who are exploiting the people on call, making them work unpaid overtime.

"Our next version will be better than anything that is out there now." --- Microsoft has been saying that for years about all of their software.

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Why does Microsoft think the rest of the software world will remain stationary while Microsoft lumbers forwards at its own bloated pace.

The ISP will love the excess bandwidth usage charges.....

Why potentially cripple all of the television appliances just to allow a minority of people to watch movies a few days earlier? Once such a remote disable ability exists, it will be used and abused.

What did you expect Microsoft to say? Did you really expect them to officially acknowledge that Windows 7 is an OS-X rip-off?