Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Oct 2007 14:34 UTC, submitted by D. Suse
A group of state attorneys general urged a federal judge on Tuesday to hold Microsoft to a 2002 antitrust settlement another five years so that the company can't stymie embryonic Web 2.0 rivals of its Windows operating system. According to six states - California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts - and the District of Columbia, Microsoft could use its Internet Explorer browser as a 'chokepoint' to block moves that might unseat Windows dominant position on the desktop. 
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Member since:2005-09-14
You seem to have missed his point: if you look at Web 2.0 apps, most of them at present are utterly laughable compared to real applications on real OSes, ergo they aren't by any realistic measure competition, thus real OSes have nothing to fear (at present). And frankly, considering the utter and complete mess of hacks that HTML+CSS+Javascript+XMLHTTPRequest is, I really don't see that changing unless the whole thing's utterly scrapped and redesigned sanely. Maybe they'll get it right with "Web 3.0" but I'm not holding my breath.
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2006-03-12
"If they had looked at any "Web 2.0" applications, they would have realized that traditional OSs have nothing to fear.
Double ironic since the technology used to develop many of them will probably Microsoft's Silverlight..."
Nothing to fear!? Thats a strange term, for monopolistic abuse. You should perhaps should take a little look at how Microsoft plan on using OOXML...and I mean as a replacement to HTML etc not as an office format.
What I'm confused about is why anyone would want Monopolistic abuse. I personally would like a working capitalistic approach to the Market myself, why would *YOU* fear that.