http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2007/01/26/microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:05:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2007/01/26/microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-4910 Dan Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:39:30 +0000 http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2007/01/26/microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe/#comment-4910 I recently bought a computer with Vista pre-installed. It took 36 hours of beating my head against the wall to realize what Microsoft has done. They have introduced an OS that disables or cripples not only competitors' products but their own legacy products, which many of us still use. Examples of programs that will not run under Vista include: MS Office 2000 Corel Graphics Suite 12 All Adobe Graphics programs Symantec Anti-virus and security products MANY others Even my Pocket PC from 2000 will not synch with Vista. I believe this design is clearly aimed at increasing Microsoft.s dominance. Too bad we have no anti-trust protection left in the US! BTW, I returned the computer I recently bought a computer with Vista pre-installed. It took 36 hours of beating my head against the wall to realize what Microsoft has done. They have introduced an OS that disables or cripples not only competitors’ products but their own legacy products, which many of us still use. Examples of programs that will not run under Vista include:
MS Office 2000
Corel Graphics Suite 12
All Adobe Graphics programs
Symantec Anti-virus and security products
MANY others
Even my Pocket PC from 2000 will not synch with Vista.
I believe this design is clearly aimed at increasing Microsoft.s dominance.
Too bad we have no anti-trust protection left in the US!
BTW, I returned the computer

]]> http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2007/01/26/microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-1926 EU Conspiracy Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:08:42 +0000 http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2007/01/26/microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe/#comment-1926 Maybe the European Union should fine them millions of dollars and give nothing to the companies they're representing. I thought people had gripes about closed source and now that Microsoft has opened source code thats bad too. What's the real issue? Jealous software companies are convincing the European Commission that Microsoft stole their cookie. The European Union happily collects fines, competion is no more, and consumers have to shell out money to companies like Adobe. Maybe the European Union should fine them millions of dollars and give nothing to the companies they’re representing. I thought people had gripes about closed source and now that Microsoft has opened source code thats bad too. What’s the real issue? Jealous software companies are convincing the European Commission that Microsoft stole their cookie. The European Union happily collects fines, competion is no more, and consumers have to shell out money to companies like Adobe.

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