Tag: monopoly

  • Get off your high horse Ed!

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    Tom Raftery
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    There was a big bruhaha on the intertubes over the weekend when Apple ran its software update on Windows and offered the Safari 3.1 browser download as the default selected option. Now I am not for a second condoning this kind of behaviour. I believe opt-in is the only way to do optional updates, especially…

  • Microsoft! Open Source Internet Explorer

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    Tom Raftery
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    I mentioned previously John C. Dvorak’s PC Magazine article where he calls on Microsoft to abandon development of Internet Explorer because: All of Microsoft’s Internet-era public-relations and legal problems (in some way or another) stem from Internet Explorer. He advised them to: pull the browser out of the OS and discontinue all IE development immediately….…