Posts by John Phellis

Microsoft's Automatic Update - the way to browser competition?

Standards is good for competition

Right, IE8 has three rendering engines. And more will be added when new versions of IE are launched. That will ensure the the web never moves over to standards, which is exactly what Microsoft hopes.

For the market leader, standards don't make sense as they lower the barriers for competition. Which is exactly why standards make sense for everyone else.

IE8's rendering engines

IE8 has more than two rendering engines (as stated in the article), it has at least four (IE6, IE7, IE8, standards mode). The number is likely to grow as new versions of IE are shipped. Unless EU can persuade MS to stop the madness.

EU says Microsoft violated law with IE on Windows

MS harms the web

Microsoft has been hindering progress on the web for years by refusing to support standards correctly. It's about time someone took them on for this. The US gov dropped their case after George W Bush came to power. Luckily, the EU commission don't have to rely on campaign contributions.

Go EU!

Apple vs MS

Apple isn't considered a monopoly and their bundling of Safari is therefore not problematic wrt. competition law. Microsoft, however, IS a mopoly and therefore has to abide by other rules. They've been abusing their Windows monopoly for too long -- I'm happy to see them roped in this time.