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| title = Microsoft | | title = Microsoft | ||
| image = microsoft.png | | image = microsoft.png | ||
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| titletext = Facebook, Apple, and Google all got away with their monopolist power grabs because they don't have any 'S's in their names for critics to snarkily replace with '$'s. | | titletext = Facebook, Apple, and Google all got away with their monopolist power grabs because they don't have any 'S's in their names for critics to snarkily replace with '$'s. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | In the late 1990s {{w|Microsoft}} started bundling its web browser, {{w|Internet Explorer}}, with its {{w|Windows}} operating system. This effectively destroyed the {{w|Netscape}} company, who up until then had the most market share with its browser, {{w|Netscape Navigator}}. Microsoft was involved in {{w|United States v. Microsoft|a legal case}} against the U.S. government, which required Microsoft to allow IE to be uninstalled | + | In the late 1990s {{w|Microsoft}} started bundling its web browser, {{w|Internet Explorer}}, with its {{w|Windows}} operating system. This effectively destroyed the {{w|Netscape}} company, who up until then had the most market share with its browser, {{w|Netscape Navigator}}. Microsoft was involved in {{w|United States v. Microsoft|a legal case}} against the U.S. government, which required Microsoft to allow IE to be uninstalled, and other remedies. |
− | The comic sarcastically states that this stopped | + | The comic sarcastically states that this stopped monopolistic software practices, when the opposite is the case. For example, [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the-king.html Apple]. The comic also mocks how trivial the {{w|Browser wars|browser debates}} are in comparison to current antitrust cases concerning [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/googles-new-search-results-raise-privacy-and-antitrust-concerns/ privacy] and [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-11/u-s-files-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple-hachette.html price fixing]. |
− | {{w|Apple}} | + | {{w|Apple}} manages to bundle a browser in on both its desktop and mobile platforms, and on its mobile platform ({{w|iOS}}) users are not even allowed the choice of changing the default browser. {{w|Google}} has its own desktop OS called {{w|Chrome OS}} in which Chrome the browser, is the operating system. On {{w|Android}}, Google has always bundled in a browser and as of version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) the browser was a mobile version of Chrome, on Android you are allowed to change the default browser. {{w|Facebook}} has gone out of its way to make sure that users cannot get their data out of Facebook so they could move to another social network. Recently this has been mitigated by the ability to [http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-allows-you-to-download-your-information/ download a zip file] of all content ever posted to Facebook, but it [http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/facebook-still-doesnt-delete-your-photos-three-years-later/2936 still remains difficult] to delete data from Facebook. |
− | + | The title text refers to the common Internet-ism of referring to Microsoft as micro$oft, or M$. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
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