IP: Dan Gilmor Microsoft's desktop `concession' taken from same old bag of tricks

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Microsoft's desktop `concession' taken from same old bag of tricks
BY DAN GILLMOR
Mercury News
Microsoft, master of misdirection, is up to its usual tricks.
The company's ``concession'' Wednesday -- giving personal computer 
manufacturers and their customers a sliver more choice in how they set up 
PCs -- is an absurdly overdue agreement to obey the law Microsoft has been 
breaking for years.

The move is hypocritical in principle, meaningless in practice. It also 
diverts attention from important issues that this still-unrepentant 
lawbreaker wants us all to miss -- namely that competition in coming years 
is not so much about the configuration of desktop computers as about the 
fast-developing world of Internet services that Microsoft is trying to 
monopolize as thoroughly as it has dominated the desktop.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg071201.htm



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