[nzlug] Opera takes on Microsoft

[Simon Bridge]

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~corwin/images/eulartcc.png
Considering that the EU is now in the business of LARTing large
international tech firms, EU Trial-tests new, Hi Tech,
Compliance-Assurance technology.

Critics question whether this technology will be fast or maneuverable
enough to keep up in todays Hi-Tech world. They advocate maintaining the
existing, tried and true, T80U and T84 variant LARTs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vglw7d7Y8io
... while others advocate adopting the KA51:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw32uYP6ve4

An EU Spokesman has responded that the opponents are so slow they have
not substantially changed position since 1998, but are large and thick
skulled. "We need something with more punch so as not to end up pwned
like those US DOJ pussies."

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 06:47 +1300, Michael Adams wrote:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1337269720071213
> 
> "A small Norwegian maker of Web browsers, backed by an industry
> coalition, has filed the first complaint against Microsoft to the
> European Commission since the software giant lost a landmark antitrust
> case earlier this year."
> 
> IIRC the earlier lost case required Microsoft to supply a version of
> Windows with Windows Media Player unbundled for the European market.
> 

On the linux and F/OSS front, we get to ask people if they really want
to do business with a convicted and unrepentant monopolist. (To which
people keep saying, "Yes.") It means that Free applications have more of
a lookin - but won't we just see Windows Vista EU sold with the core
apps (IE OE and WMP) on an install disk? Or OEM vendors preinstalling
them? Like they do for Office?