New article in the Economist criticizing Linux usability

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:19:39AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>> Further, Microsoft has a history of using "strong arm" tactics
>> against manufactures who dared to install other than Windows on PCs.
>> Read up on how they refused to license Windows 95 to IBM at the same
>> rate as other manufacturers, as long as IBM sold computers with
>> OS/2.  Or how they put bogus errors in Windows, when it was run on
>> DR-DOS or per CPU licenses whether a computer was shipped with
>> Windows or not.  It's a long list of what they've done to block
>> competition.
> Oh I know.  I have read it all over the years.
>
> But these days they don't even have to do that since there are 3rd
> parties giving companies incentives to keep installing windows only.
>
> It's a sad market state.
>
They're still at it.
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/03/microsoft-redeploys-ooxml-in-o.html
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