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Anti-competitive practices
By nafhan on 3/31/2011 7:22:08 AM , Rating: 4
While, the amount of control Google has over the internet and people's data is worrisome, I feel like - more important than marketshare in these cases - is anti-competitive behavior, and the examples MS has given of Google's anti-competitive behavior are pretty weak.

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By omnicronx on 3/31/2011 11:10:04 AM , Rating: 5
Compared to previous cases against MS, I completely disagree.

If packaging a browser with your OS is considered anticompetitive in the EU, then many of MS claims clearly could hold some merit.

Google holds a very large share in the EU, and they should not be able to leverage said dominance to lock out competitors, whomever they may be. Allowing third party access to your API's to some and not to others seems like a power play to me.(From my understanding they would not give any kind of deal, whether there was a monetary agreement or not)

Had it been the opposite with MS blocking Google from doing something, everyone would be up in arms.

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By Lazarus Dark on 3/31/2011 9:00:28 PM , Rating: 2
Personally, I never agreed with how MS was treated, even though I am not fan of MS. I always felt it was MS's duty and responsibility to offer a browser and whatever else prepackaged in their OS, because that's what you WANT in an OS. You want everything right there and ready to go. That said, I was an early adopter of Firefox as I was never really happy with IE. Now, if MS had put code in Windows that prevented another browser from being installed, that would be a big misuse of their monopoly, but they never did any such thing. I think the EU way overstepped their bounds as decisions like those that they made had an affect on how MS operated from then on, the EU market was too big to ignore and they just couldn't try to make a seperate OS just for them, so MS had to change the way they do things across the board and I believe that Windows is the worse for it and it pisses me off that the EU can affect MY operating system, giving me a lesser quality experience, by their decisions.

So I will be equally if not more pissed if the EU tries to mess with my Google services. Google has yet to do anything I dislike, I love every service they provide and I especially love getting all that service in ONE place. Call it a monopoly if you want, but this is a monopoly I CHOOSE. There are PLENTY of alternative sources for services like those Google provides, but Google does it better, cheaper (free) and with better integration. Thus, I choose Google.

And who cares about Bing anyway. It sucks. Maybe if MS made a better product they would get more business. And has anyone pointed out that the REASON MS has less market share of search over there is because of the EU? Because of the EU's intervention in the browser market, thus MS has less browser share and... wait for it... less search market share. DUH. Because most people use the search that comes with their browser

RE: Anti-competitive practices
By Fracture on 4/1/2011 11:47:13 AM , Rating: 2
I know - Microsoft can just go an use their own video hosting site for their smartphones. Oh wait, that's right - despite having access to the product itself, Microsoft wants to reap the benefits of another company's work.

This situation is parallel to the numerous requests asking Google to share its search engine algorithms so that people may better game their products.

