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It's sad that big companies have to take issues to the Senate Judiciary Committee only because a "big brother" won't share with "little sister"... It's time to grow up, stop tattle-tailing and work things out like adults!

If one company wants to close their doors and not give access to their APIs then don't do business with them. It's as simple as that. There are other solutions out there than giving in to Microsoft's games.

This is beyond the Senate's usual level of stupidity. The country's credit rating continues to fall as they and the House spend us into bankruptcy and they think this is important? Senate stupidity is exceeded only by Mozilla's - why are they whining about a niche tablet when they can't get on iPad because of similar restrictions?

stjones911, on 14 May 2012 - 06:25 AM, said:

Agreed. And it's not like Windows 8/RT is going to take off anyways. Might as well invest in Linux at the rate Windows 8 is going...

It no secret that MS does not work and play well with others. And when you think about it, thats really the only way they can keep up. Innovation at MS has been gone for years, since they can't innovate, they threaten companies with innovation by denying them tools they need to make a good product or try to steal the company using any method they can. That said with out MS you would likely be using command line instead of pretty pictures to work on your pc. And pc's would likey cost thousands of dollars. Not to mention we wouldn't have millions of people posting "their going potty" or "you should see the car I just hit", on facebook. So who's the winner?

ClaudeD, on 14 May 2012 - 07:39 AM, said:

The only reason you don't see more companies pushing out their personal OS is because everyone already knows the name Microsoft. It all has to do with brand recognition. You are seeing it now with the "Tablet Wars". Apple is dominating the tablet industry and Microsoft is dominating the OS industry. Luckily, people with the real innovation are not working for Apple and Microsoft. In this industry it's all about who you know and how much you want to screw as many people over as you can while making your big bucks.

Dumb lawyers. That's what this is about. Lawyers have no concept of technology. So obviously they get the wrong message out to the public, and the media is glad to create conflict. The issue is about developers at Mozilla feeling locked out of their own program by Microsoft's move on the ARM or whatever that lame thing is. The difference with Apple's move is that the browser just won't work. Microsoft on the other hand let's the browser work but cripples it to the point where a new user would likely blame Mozilla for a crappy browser rather than blaming Microsoft for crippling it. Get it yet? I hate it when people miss the point.

ClaudeD, on 14 May 2012 - 07:39 AM, said:

Microsoft has certainly worked hand in hand with Apple for years, in spite of the public competition being displayed. MS and Apple have shared code and MS has developed programs for their rival. They've created these programs and used parts of the source code then to create windows. But Apple came first. The Apple IIc was the first computer I ever used and it had a graphic user interface and worked with a mouse. That was years before the first GUI from MS. PC's don't cost a lot because a lot of them are made quite shabbily and the OS is, up til recently with Win7 and to an extent XP, a badly engineered product and unstable. Apple Operating Systems are generally built more robust because of the lack of all that vestigial programing and bloat. Command line at times is more powerful than the same actions done under a GUI but most of us would prefer an easier interface and learning curve.

That all said, let Microsoft have its little niche tablet. It will go the way of the Palm Pilot. Remember that was a proprietary system and no one was screaming anti-trust. I have to agree also with a previous poster that it is Apple that Mozilla needs to be gunning for in an anti-trust lawsuit. Adobe for that matter should be accusing Apple of blocking its Flash program as that is not available for the Ipad. As much as I dislike the Ipad as nothing more than a toy with limited functionality it has a larger share of the market than this inane win-ate tablet will ever have. Microsoft is really gambling on this timid little tablet. Every time we buy into a new operating system from microsoft it's us that's taking the biggest gamble of them all. I'll be willing to bet most buyers won't byte.