Most of you are familiar with the fact Microsoft was ordered to stop "bundling," the tying of Microsoft's de facto monopoly operating system Windows with other products Microsoft might face competition in, leveraging Microsoft an unfair advantage across the entire software industry.
Today's story at hand is being soft-pedalled by the MSM. My eye was caught by the teaser:
"Microsoft Offering Businesses Perks for Using Its Search Engine"
and the story's actual headline was even more banal:
"Microsoft Promises Rewards for Search Engine Use."
My infallible Bill Gates Theft-O-Meter pegged hard-right. The not-subtle scam below.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Microsoft on Friday began offering large businesses rewards if they have employees scout the Internet with the software giant's Live Search service.
In a move intended to wrest users from rival search engines such as market-dominating Google, Microsoft will give business customers service or training credits based on how much employees use Live Search.
"We are conducting a trial program through which Microsoft is providing service or training credits to a select number of enterprise customers based on the number of Web search queries conducted by their employees via Live Search," the Redmond, Washington, company said in a written statement
Microsoft thinks giving a monetary credit for training for Windows will not be ultimately found by the courts to be an unlawful leverage of Windows to the benefit of Microsoft's new search engine. It's a chilling commentary on the plethora of corrupt Republican Federal judges.
I'm taken aback by the brazen disregard Microsoft has for our antitrust laws. I think it's an important issue, in partisan terms. Republicans (like Bill Gates) are complete hypocrites for preaching "law and order" when it comes to the meek but exempting themselves from any laws they don't care for.
As Jon Stewart said, to Bush even the Constitution is a "nonbiding resolution." I extend Stewart's remarkable analogy to Bill Gates, his sock puppet Steve Ballmer, and his cult in Redmond.