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( EU Plans Fine, Remedies for Microsoft 'Abuses' )
Europe wants them to unbundle Media Player and "open up" the code for its server software. Plus a fine. No telling what "open up" means here, but hopefully it means making the interoperability specs, at least, available for free. (The corresponding US deal is a 'reasonable and nondiscriminatory' license for $100K or so, which cuts out the only real competition, the open-source Samba project.
( Linux almost as easy to use as Windows )
The noteworthy thing about this study is that the users had no experience with Windows XP, but were almost certainly users of some kind of Windows. One wonders what the results would have been if the test had included installation -- my experiences installing Windows from scratch have been uniformly nightmarish.
Europe wants them to unbundle Media Player and "open up" the code for its server software. Plus a fine. No telling what "open up" means here, but hopefully it means making the interoperability specs, at least, available for free. (The corresponding US deal is a 'reasonable and nondiscriminatory' license for $100K or so, which cuts out the only real competition, the open-source Samba project.
( Linux almost as easy to use as Windows )
The noteworthy thing about this study is that the users had no experience with Windows XP, but were almost certainly users of some kind of Windows. One wonders what the results would have been if the test had included installation -- my experiences installing Windows from scratch have been uniformly nightmarish.