And about windoze or M$ bashing , i guess the desktop worrld can learn from it a lot and anatgonism is never gona be helpful windoze does have some good features thats why so many people use it.... And like it or not M$ is good at marketing what its got no matter how crappy. Moreover MS is the company that over the years has made the least amount of bad business decisions.
Going by the fines they have paid (> $3billion) does not look like that at all. It is not even good at marketing (wether M$ has it or not is not even relevant to them), it simply robs other companies of their ideas and then fights in court until the opponent goes bankrupt. In lay mans terms it's called bullying.
So take the good from M$ and Windoze rather than just bash it... I mean Lotus made mistakes IBM did ..
Lotus did not make mistakes. M$ changed the win APIs and not only did not provide it to other vendors (Novell, Lotus, IBM etc) but also deliberately introduced bugs to prevent the victims software from running. That is what those fines were for.
dude monoply isnt obtained by being a saint u got to play dirty and fines well the fines have been for anti monoply suites whr M$ which just reinforces the point that they v got power to do what they like wats 3 billion to microsoft nothin much i would say... and wat hapnd to the bundeled IE case against m$ doesnt look like there is much headway and netscape can go on reinventing itself from borrowed code, it aint doin any good