Today, Microsoft Watch had an article titled “Should the Windows and IE Teams go their Separate Ways?”. Here’s my own 2 cents on the subject:

Frankly, I think Microsoft has way too much of its attention paid to Windows. It seems that they are using their success in other areas more and more to shore up Windows. Not only with IE, but I see the same thing with .NET (C#, at least, should be widely available, and the .NET runtime should also), Visual Studio, and Office. While I never bought into the whole “Microsoft is a Monopoly” nonsense (depending upon how you cut it, Apple is a monopoly, Intel is a monopoly, Dell is a monopoly, etc.),  Microsoft is now placing their own interests ahead of those of their consumers. Now, this may be perfectly legal and ethical, but as a Microsoft consumer, I don’t like it, and am more and more leaning to expressing that dislike by moving on. Do you hear me, Microsoft?

1/4/2006 11:07:54 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)      Comments [0]  general | development