Antitrust against Microsoft Explorer
They have never loved. And hopes of a reconciliation are increasingly futile . We are talking of ‘antitrust and MicrosoftTwo ” entities ” , thus if we want to define who can always find new points of disagreement . After the known events , with fines and penalties which have interested Microsoft and its browser in the past in America and in the Old Continent ( among which the story linked to the price of the software) , this time is European Commission to bring up Explorer, and to accuse the Redmond violation of rules Antitrust .
The reason ? The fact that the popular browser is implemented within the Windows operating system. Conflict of interests , they say, because you ( if you buy a PC that has certainly inside the OS of Microsoft) would be unwilling to try new options as the navigation interface is ready on your desktop and this , to the detriment of the proposals made by other manufacturers .
Crushed the competition , then? Only partly true . While it is undeniable that Explorer is not the best browser and is used mainly because it remains the best known and most immediate use (no need to install that , just because it is preloaded with Windows ) , you can not omit the fact that In recent years the situation in terms of browsers has changed radically . Mozilla Firefox with her , won the important market share of 20 %Safari starts to look even on Windows systems and there are always the same affectionate Opera and Netscape , just to name the most famous names . People not stupid and uninformed , as perhaps all would have us believe, is aware of the potential and the real value of proposals such as Mozilla , and tends to choose the bestAlthough Explorer , despite everything , continues to hold on.
We do not want to tip the balance further , we expressed our opinion in even clearer in other articles. Instead we are interested to know how things unfold this story : Microsoft faces a heavy fine by the European Community and the procedure is examining the cards he received. is also true that change across the interface of Windows Explorer to be detached from a long and complex . So , curious about the end of this story, we leave you wishing you all a good navigation, whatever the browser used.
