Looks like the Microsoft anti-trust settlement is soon to be released and from what I hear,
it’s a weak slap on the wrist. I suspect I should actually read it, but gah,
I don’t really care much anymore. I was kind of hoping for, I dunno,
actual punishment / restitution or something. From the descriptions I’ve
heard so far, it sounds like it will have almost no impact on the way
they do business (you know, the convicted anti-trust monopolist way…).
Should make things interesting at work for the next few years, now that
they have free reign to return to using their tens of billions of dollars
to attempt to put their competitors out of business by any means possible,
legal or otherwise.
Bah. So thats my yearly anti Microsoft rant.