Does it every time (Score 1)

Note that Microsoft posted replies to every single one of the testimonies before the testimony itself was posted.

Given that journalists are more eager to be the first than to be the best informed, they get priority coverage in the media. This strategy has proved to be very succesful as a pre-emptive strike against the impact the actual testimony may have on the public.

Some considerations wrt the allegation of Microsoft having a monopoly with Windows:

• Windows and Linux are not "plug-compatible", so they are not in the same market. Rockefeller could have a monopoly in oil, even though both are fuel and can to some extend be used for the same purposes. One can make cars running on coal, but one can't throw coal in the gas tank and then drive away. Microsoft has a 100% market share and hence a monopoly in the operating systems that conform to the "Windows standard". Compare this with the numerous companies that sell Linux. There is competition in the market for Linux OS's, but none in the market for "Windows compatible OS".
  
• Does the existence of the Dutch language demonstrate that the US standardization on the English language is continually threatened and engaged in fierce competition with Dutch?
  
• Microsoft's successful regulation of the computer industry by lowering prices for large customers, but raising it again when those customers have the guts to pre-install non-Microsoft software constitutes "denial of entry". On this kind of regulation see my: "Regulation through taxation" .
  

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