Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Apr 2006 20:29 UTC
Microsoft told a European Union court on Monday that regulators had completely misunderstood thriving competition in the software market in issuing a landmark antitrust ruling against the giant U.S. company. But an internal Microsoft memo presented by a coalition of critical companies suggested founder Bill Gates was told that a strategy used to crush the rival Netscape browser could also take down the leader in streaming media, RealNetworks' RealPlayer.
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2005-07-06
And people complain? O_o
Ok, so RealPlayer at one point was so full off adware it was practically unusable. But think about it this way : they couldn't get bundled with new pc's (because of MS), their direct competition (MS Media Player) was bundled and free - how were they supposed to make money ? Did they lose the market because their software was crap or did their software turn to crap because they had to scrounge an income somehow ?
Facts remain the streaming media market which was owned for a great part by Real in the early days is now dominated by MS with a niche left for Quicktime.