Comment Re:Why shouldn't they? (Score 1) 528
Some of these replies are amusing, especially when comparing Microsoft to Google.
Go to www.google.com and enter "search", and you'll see the results of a true attempt at monopoly: www.msn.com is the first non-paid result, and the only reason that it's there is bacause Microsoft has forced so many vendors to supply the Windows OS, which has IE as a default, which has.... guess who's home page? That's right, www.msn.com.
Now, that's heavily using a competitive advantage.
Since there are so many computer-illiterate people out there running the Windows OS, they just leave MSN as the home page, and many don't even know how to change it, and some people are not even aware that it can be changed.
Now, go get Comcast as your new ISP. You have to run a setup program (according to them) to get your new cable service working. After you are done, you suddenly have Comcast as the homepage and even the icon in IE has changed. I never saw a question that asked if I wanted that.
Google isn't forcing anyone to do anything. Go use the MSN search engine.
-- Rob "I" --
Go to www.google.com and enter "search", and you'll see the results of a true attempt at monopoly: www.msn.com is the first non-paid result, and the only reason that it's there is bacause Microsoft has forced so many vendors to supply the Windows OS, which has IE as a default, which has.... guess who's home page? That's right, www.msn.com.
Now, that's heavily using a competitive advantage.
Since there are so many computer-illiterate people out there running the Windows OS, they just leave MSN as the home page, and many don't even know how to change it, and some people are not even aware that it can be changed.
Now, go get Comcast as your new ISP. You have to run a setup program (according to them) to get your new cable service working. After you are done, you suddenly have Comcast as the homepage and even the icon in IE has changed. I never saw a question that asked if I wanted that.
Google isn't forcing anyone to do anything. Go use the MSN search engine.
-- Rob "I" --
