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CorsaLad16v

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24th Mar 04 at 22:21

For breaking competition laws... just said on news how much was fined

£611Million

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

discuss

Drew

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24th Mar 04 at 22:22

i dont see the problem myself

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

was 300million on news earlier

LukeGSi

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24th Mar 04 at 22:23

£611million is peanuts to them tho

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24th Mar 04 at 22:24

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

CorsaLad16v

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24th Mar 04 at 22:24

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

Shane

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24th Mar 04 at 22:24

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

bubble

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24th Mar 04 at 22:26

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

change to me as well............

Natz

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24th Mar 04 at 22:57

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!

Joff

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24th Mar 04 at 23:03

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...

Trucido

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24th Mar 04 at 23:07

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

Joff

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24th Mar 04 at 23:10

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.

Munchie

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24th Mar 04 at 23:13

u like dat pic of me dotn u joff?

Joff

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24th Mar 04 at 23:30

yesh

kerzo

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24th Mar 04 at 23:35

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

where is the money going to then?

Dan B

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25th Mar 04 at 00:43

£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.

R Lee

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25th Mar 04 at 00:45

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

where is the money going to then?

good point.

Trucido

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25th Mar 04 at 00:52

the government! where all fines like that go

R Lee

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25th Mar 04 at 00:53

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

Jodi_the_g

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25th Mar 04 at 08:13

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

M2RTY

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25th Mar 04 at 08:43

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

Adam-D

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25th Mar 04 at 08:46

quote:
Originally posted by Joff

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

marc did about 3 months ago

stuyw

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25th Mar 04 at 11:42

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

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