These attacks on the legimate property of American businesses are getting more absurd each passing year. Socialist and anti-property rights wackos are running amok in Europe.

Point 1: The interoperability of other software with Windows? How about learning to code, jokers? Microsoft wrote the OS, it's the job of applications programers to learn to write code to work with it, not the other way around. Do you need your livelihood handed to you on a silver platter or do you think you can do some actual work to earn your way?

Point 2: The bundling of "other software" with Windows. Where the heck was Opera in 1995 when IE first hit the scene? Or any other browser than Mozilla, for that matter? Do you see any Notepad or Wordpad or Solitaire or Paint program replacement coders crying a river as deep and wide as the browser and media player coders? No. That's because those other product coders are writing innovative, quality code that can actually beat Windows' included programs. IE is easily and completely replaceable in the OS by third-party products. Buck-up and write some innovate code and BECOME COMPETITIVE. That's what business is about, innovation, marketing, quality, service, and risk. You don't see Chevy or Ford crying about not being allowed to install their engines in Mercedes or Fiat automobiles, do you? Perhaps Mercedes and Fiat cars would be better off with big honking American-built 4.6L SVT motors under their hoods, provide something in Europe some real cojones for a change.