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Microsoft Try To Take Over My PC
Micro$oft - out to take over the world?
It's that time again folks - yep, another MSN Messenger upgrade. I barely use the thing any more but my curiosity won out when I logged on and it told me MSN Messenger 7.5 was now available. Happy days, let's see what bell they've added or which whistle they've tweaked this time.
Right, what's new? Windows XP users can send video clips. Ohhh exciting! :yawn: Ah what the hell I'll upgrade anyway. This action, for some reason, in Microsoft's eyes, gives them the right to try and overrun my whole PC with MSN branded products - BOKE!
Follow up:
Anyway I run the install and the program presents me with the following options (all of them already chosen by default of course, obviously for my convenience!):
You would think after all the antitrust suits Microsoft would think twice about abusing their dominance in one market to force their way into another and overthrow a superior offering from a competitor. Apparently not. It's no secret that Microsoft are jealous of what Google have managed to do - ie take a seemingly unimportant market and turn it into a multi-million pound industry through innovative ideas (dictionary definition of "innovation" for anyone from Microsoft reading this).
Microsoft aren't long out of hot water with the American courts and the EC over using the dominance of Windows to crush other browsers (Netscape) and other media players (too many to mention) by bundling their own products in with Windows. Given that, you really have to ask "Are Microsoft really that convinced that they are above the law that they'll repeat actions they've already been pulled up about?" How can you look at this and not say yes?
In the spirit of open competition, I suggest you check out a faster, more secure browser: Mozilla Firefox and if you want to replace that MSN search crap in IE, check out this guide to making Google UK your default search page. Good stuff!