if bill gates sold microsoft, the USA wouldnt have enough money to pay him for it :!

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Originally posted by Joff


I mean, who last paid for a copy of Windows??

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just the governments way of making money

its a sad world where businesses who succeed so well are fined for it, dick head governemntt twats

bill boy does microsoft are the largest export in the Untied states so they would be fcuked with out this tax revenue

the government should just ask billy boy gates to donate some money to them :lol:

the government! where all fines like that go

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Originally posted by kerzo
being fined for being successful, a bit pish isnt it!!!

where is the money going to then?

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£331m, or $613m, or 497m euros...

And when you have a corporate bank-balance in the region of $50billion, a mere $613million is hardly going to make a dent.

You'll probably find Bill Gates could pay that fine on his own, without dipping into Microsoft's company-bank-balance......after all, the man does give in the region of $90million to charity a year, from what I've heard.

being fined for being successful, a bit pish isnt it!!!

where is the money going to then?

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yesh

u like dat pic of me dotn u joff?

Exactly - all this anti-competition stuff is bullshit.

I mean, who last paid for a copy of Windows?? The last retail version I had that was legit was Windows 95 and it came on 13 floppy discs.

lmfao and the wiring loom not making them iso standard tut tut

If people can't work out that they don't need to use Window Media Player then that's their own fault - not Microsofts.

Other software is available, other software is crap. Media Player is popular because it's not full of shit like Realplayer and Quicktime.

There are loads of free media players out there so I can't see what the problem is.
It's Microsoft's software, so they can do what they want with it.

Next Ford will be fined for making headunits that aren't DIN standard - forcing customers with aftermarket headunits to buy a fascia adaptor... :rolleyes:

wouldnt mind a bit of that!

Microsoft are bound to have the most market share, so im sure that wont hurt the MD's phat bonuses!

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Originally posted by netrix
lol, 611 mil is pennys to them, its back pocket change

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lol, 611 mil is pennys to them, its back pocket change

it said summat about the fine equals to 1% of the reserve amount or summat, i wasn't really listnin lol am eating my supperrrr

1% of thier cash reserve! I prefer Media Player too, its just better...

£611million is peanuts to them tho

i dont see the problem myself

if they the biggest company - why shouldnt they use that to there advantage?

was 300million on news earlier

For breaking competition laws... just said on news how much was fined :lol: £611Million :o

gettin done coz it gives away Media player with its Windows packages n it squeezes out the competition :lol:

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