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Originally Posted by spectheintro
Except they did. If you'd read the provided link, you'd see that Windows 95 made installs of foreign browsers extremely unintuitive. (They falsified evidence to try and show otherwise, but were caught in the act.) Not only that, but Microsoft also forced OEMs to NOT package competitor's browsers when distributing their computers. So yes, quite literally, Microsoft did prevent me from installing foreign browsers: it exercised (illegally) market power to keep alternatives from me in a purchased machine, and also purposely designed their OS to be anti-foreign browser. You can say MS and Apple are sort-of similar on the latter; the former is a totally different category of behavior.
I at no point "cried fowl" for the FTC investigating anything. I merely pointed out that what MS did is in a completely different ozone layer than the things you're decrying Apple for.
Easy. Apple is not bullying AT&T and every other carrier to not let you purchase any other phone. That difference enough for you? Apple is also not spending millions of dollars spreading false information about every other cell phone OS in the market. In short, Apple is not attempting to be a monopoly. That's the difference between Apple and MS.
If you don't like Apple, fine. Doesn't matter to me. But get your perspective straight. Apple and MS are in completely different leagues. Just because you feel more aggrieved by Apple's slights doesn't mean they're comparable to the morass of anti-competitive behavior MS engaged in. We'll never know how much innovation and creativity was stifled by MS's practices.
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What's the point of looking through a ancient wiki article if I used every version of MS OS from DOS 3.3 to Windows 7 and had no problems ever with installing or using Netscape? I have recently read that after installing a Plus pack with Windows 95 it may have had some conflicts with Netscape. The problem is as soon as Plus was released, I installed it, hated it (bloatware), and just reinstalled Windows so maybe this specific problem I avoided. But all Windows 95 versions, retail, oem A, B and C ran Netscape without issue for me so, I'm not sure what you want me to see.
I also said that I was against the business bullying as well that Microsoft occasionally engages in but Apple is also engaging in them now, with selective app approval and not being able to leave AT&T. I also welcomed the fines MS got for getting too big for their britches years ago and that's why I see Apple now become what MS was all those years ago.