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Microsoft denies it is behind IBM anti-trust suit
The money was for something else
Thu Jan 22 2009, 14:40
SOFTWARE GIANT MICROSOFT said that it is not financing an anti-trust action against IBM in the EU.
The Financial Times had suggested that T3 Technologies is being backed in its legal fight by Microsoft. T3 claims that Biggish Blue illegally tied the sale of its operating system to its mainframe hardware in order to shut out competitors.
Vole did hand over an undisclosed amount of cash to T3 last year. A spokesvole said that was because Microsoft wanted more openness in the mainframe market and was therefore backing them to expand. But this did not include taking Biggish Blue to court. µ
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Comparing Apple and Microsoft on these grounds is ridiculous. We're talking about Microsoft, a convicted monopoly. You know what ? When Apple has over 80% of the market, well then YES, it will also get attacked for bundling a browser with its OS. Meanwhile, leave Apple with its peanut share out of the picture. Happy ?
Microsoft is not against the T3 troll complaint against IBM as IBM is not against the Opera complaint. IBM and Microsoft would never do that. After all they are not even European companies, so why interfere in antitrust matters of foreign nations.
apple are under the microscope about their OS, its under the spotlight even more now, because its X86 and windows is very compatible. so apple allow you to install vista, right? with a program they make called boot camp.
however OSX is only installable on apple products, and ONLY them. Why? they allow windows on their systems, heck they even give u a program to do it. but PC users cant install OS X on their X86, unless they buy apple hardware.
Ive said it a lot, but jobs could tap at least a billion dollars by allowing OS X on non apple hardware. all they need is a Nvidia driver, ATI, creative any other mainstream hardware, once they have these pre-installed it would work well
but in the absence of that that is a monopoly my friend
WTF?
Microsoft's software doesn't even run on IBM big iron, at least not any more. I hardly think that it's anti-trust that IBM are supplying their own OS with their mainframes.
What next, Apple get sued for supplying MacOS X with Macs?
Rob
Microsoft could also deny that it did not fund SCO failed legitigation against IBM about Unix source code in Linux.