Premediatated Bundling : A Microsoft Tirade

Article = no article , this is my personal opinion.

The people at microsoft like to say that the Internet Explorer is part of the operating system, there's no way to remove it. This is why they push it on everyone , and you need to inconveniently download Netscape (or any other alternative browser) if you want to get away from it.

This is crud.

The operating system , windows, is not a rock that fell from the sky and you take it or leave it, it is a made thing , a manufactured item. If you manufactured the OS such that the browser is part of it and cannot be removed, then it is the same thing as saying you committed bundling with years of premediation. (it takes years to make an operating system).

Think of it in non computer terms.

lets say someone got a lock on the Television Market, and his brand of TV is the only brand out there. There are no competiters you have to go to him , or nothing. Lets say that there are a dozen or so video game consols, game machines you plug into a TV and play, and each game machine has a different library of games.

Lets say our Tv manufacturer wants in on the action , and so the latest TV he produces has a built in game consol, and suddenly lacks the usual jacks where you would plug in another manufcturer's game console.

He has now used his monopoly on TV's to get a monopoly on game consoles. Not because his product is any better, but because of foul play , deliberately locking out the competition rather than competing with them. I'm sure you can see how totally unfair this is , mostly to the consumer who's games wont run on the new TV and when the old tv breaks they're out of luck.
And the TV makers excuse for all of this ? The Game Console is Part of the TV , it cannot be seperated. Nonsense, this is a made item , that just means you planned this stunt years ahead of time.

The catch is , what do you do about it ? They're the only TV producer around ?

What do we do about Microsoft, they're the only OS around ?

Well, they're not.
Get off the microsoft wagon. Get an old junker of a computer, and get Linux, the "hobbiests" operating system. And we start all over again.

Oh , why do we care about browsers ? Netscape lost that war a long time ago ?
Because Microsoft just put out a fire wall as part of the opeating system, muscling out many security companies. And now they're working on an anti-trojen program called Windows Defender, same deal. These programs are inheritently inferior, often vastly inferior, to the ones they replace. But they are being rammed down our throats with little choice in the matter, much to the detriment of the consumer.
And now Windows Vista comes with Internet Explorer 7 , which will not show half the web pages in the world, and there's no way to put an older browser on Vista , so it's forced on you and now the whole flipping world must pay to rewrite their web pages because Microsoft can't be bothered to follow standard HTML coding practices.

I'm not moving to Vista.
I'm moving to Linux.