Comments on: Microsoft, regulators to meet over Longhorn

Giant will meet with federal and state antitrust regulators next month to head off potential trouble before new software ships.

[PCCRomeo]

Microsoft gets in trouble for Media Player but not Explorer???.....

Okay, the part talking about how something was to only be viewed with Internet Explorer has brought something to mind: Microsoft got in trouble for shutting out other Media Players with their own, so why not with their web browser? What they're doing with IE is no different than what they've done with WMP. What they're doing with IE is alot more out in the open that what was done with WMP.......I don't know, obviously the courts see no relation between the two, but whatever, any site that requires me to use IE, I don't use it. Up until recently I've used IE but everytime I would close it, I would get an error message from Windows, so I've finally moved to Firefox. And when/if the same thing happens to Firefox, I'll just go on to whatever other browser is hot @ the time.....

[Llib Setag]

IE...EU, EU...IE

The difference between IE & Media Player issue is that the EU has
a spine & the US DOJ is a spineless pawn in Citizen Gates back
pocket...
Follow the money my friend... (MS PAC donations are
skyrocketing...)

[tharcod]

IE

Netscape basically waited to long to sue, then got snapped up by AOL who depended heavily, at the time, on Microsoft for market penetration.