The Musings of Chris Samuel

ABC News are reporting a forthcoming anti-trust trial against Microsoft "alleging it broke fair trade rules by bundling its instant messenger service with its Windows XP operating platform".

Sounds similar to the EU anti-trust trial where MS took advantage of its monopoly on desktop OS’s to extend their reach into media playing software, thereby giving themselves a large captive audience to persuade media companies to go with their format instead of any competitors (such as Real Networks.

Here it’s the fact that every XP box comes with MSN Messenger instead..