Microsoft's Vista push probed by Fair Trade Commission
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThe Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission is investigating a complaint against Microsoft made by the Taiwanese Consumer Foundation, which claims the company is effectively using its monopoly to force sales of Vista.
The Foundation claims its research shows 56 per cent of people buying new machines, with Vista on, would later put XP on their new box and that 67 per cent thought Microsoft should continue to offer XP. XP is still available in Taiwan on some new, lower-spec machines.
But an anti-trust lawyer speaking to Bloomberg said it would be a strange interpretation of competition law to say that a company had to continue selling a product for ever.
Taiwanese authorities have tussled with Microsoft before - in 2003 the company settled with the Fair Trade Commission after a year-long investigation. If found guilty Microsoft could be fined 25m Taiwanese Dollars or £427,000. ®
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Comments(4)
if u dont want it, dont buy microsoft windows. u cant keep selling old reduntant products
(in this case software) on the market just because people dont want to upgrade. it would
put futher stress on microsoft to keep provide support for xp when they could put that
money towards making a better os or provide better support or hopefully cheaper prices.
what a fool. if you can keep making a product, for almost free, and keep selling it for
year and years to come, why not. the people want it, they are selling xp xo for $2-3 per
copy, so it must be more than just cost or income. that is the real issue!
the human fear of change may have ended up stifling innovation and refinements in windows
7 if microsoft had kept xp standing on its feet.
if microsoft had kept selling
xp through pre-june 30th channels, they'd be taking resources away from windows 7 in
churning out more and more updates for xp. given how many more updates xp has needed than
vista since vista's release, i'd say xp is less efficient from a software design
standpoint.
xp must be relegated to computing history if windows 7 has any
chance of surpassing vista.
insane. what a joke. force a broken product on a market that does not want it. i sell to
company's who have to have working units that have to make products and help people keep
jobs. vista does not do this. xp does. it works. sure, if you like to stay home, with no
job, playing with vista, use it. stifle innovation by not having a job.
here
is the real deal. ms makes the laws. bush make the laws nation wide. we have to take it up
the "who ha" and we have to like it. that smells of the old ussr to me.
no
thanks.
many of mine are asking about linux for the next round of upgrades.
forget win7, they want to get away from ms 100%
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Whats with all this complaining
By Will on 19.08.2008 - 11:08