Microsoft To Be Investigated

[Dubh Aingeal]

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has announced that a group of state attorneys general will decide later this week whether to pursue legal action against Microsoft over allegations of anticompetitive conduct that were brought on by Google.

Google has complained that Microsoft's new operating system puts it, and other rivals, at a disadvantage. Google said that Vista makes it harder for consumers to use non-Microsoft versions of a desktop search function, which enables users to search the contents of their hard drives. A group of state attorneys general including Connecticut and California is now determining how to react to the claims made by Google.

[Homicidalheathen]

AGAIN???!!!

[Dubh Aingeal]

AGAIN???!!!

They are constantly being investigated for monopolistic practices by someone some where. This is just the latest in a long string.

[Amerist]

Like an RTS video game, Microsoft has built an entire wing onto their command center to act as Electronic-Counter-Measures against monopoly and anticompetitive investigations. It does so by spewing kilotonnes of red tape in a global radius around the corporation and when someone comes along with scissors it deploys lawyers with briefcases full of money.

The next upgrade is 85% done, we know because the green bar above the facility is almost filled out and the sounds of cackling and paper shuffling can be clearly heard emanating from the structure.

Look out! It's a Windows Update rush! Under the cover of darkness, and bureaucratic maneuvering, these mild mannered IT professionals replace the OS of attacking organizations and suddenly all of their filing documents become incompatible, and those that aren't are given "helpful" advice by a rail-thin fellow with metallic skin and broad knowledge of the legal system.

"I see that you are drafting an anti-trust suit. Would you like me to help you with that?"

[ ] Yes.

[ ] Scrap this, there is nothing to see here.