20090701 Call for EU Commission to Probe Windows Price-fixing

From s5h.net

Price fixing.

Who in their right mind will purchase Windows 7 at these prices?

The answer is of course is that Windows will not be sold at that price. Instead Microsoft will use its OEM monopoly control to fix prices so that it is priced to undercut competitors in any area they make an inroad by offering low OEM prices with conditions attached such as hardware spec. price etc. and offering rebates so that OEMs effectively are paid by Microsoft to keep competitors off preloaded systems. They are doing exactly this on netbooks and nettops right now, and there is a long suspicion that the reluctance of the likes of Dell and HP to advertise or aggressively sell Linux PCs and laptops that are preloaded with Linux in the past is due to such market manipulation.

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-01-005-35-OP-MS-0000

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Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan

Windows 7 RC, which Microsoft Corp. will officialy launch tomorrow, leaked two weeks ago, with copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on April 24. Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse, numerous users said in message forums and in comments on BitTorrent sites such as Mininova.org.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/301891/leaked_copies_windows_7_rc_contain_trojan