[danudey]

> Windows, as a desktop OS, generally allows you to do whatever you want with it, and does not "abuse" its position to prevent competitors from being install on the computer, for example.

Microsoft got nailed for bundling Internet Explorer in with Windows and not allowing licensees (OEMs) to preinstall Netscape, even though nothing prevented users from installing the software after the fact.

> If windows only allowed you to buy from certain app stores, that would be illegal.

Isn't this the case for Windows RT, or is that dead already?

[nicoburns]

To be fair to microsoft, they really seem to hav gotten their act together in the aftermath of that event. Admittedly they seem to be slipping back into some bad habits recently. But they seem to be a good deal better behaves than Apple and other big tech companies for now. And I suspect a lot of that is to do with the lawsuit. IMO the world would be a better place if anti-trust laws were enforced stronger than they currently are.

[nodamage]

> Microsoft got nailed for bundling Internet Explorer in with Windows

This was actually overturned during the appeal. Whether the act of bundling IE with Windows would have been itself an antitrust violation was ultimately never decided by the courts. (The OEM stuff and other actions by Microsoft were ruled to be antitrust violations, however.)

[Aeolun]

> Microsoft got nailed for bundling Internet Explorer in with Windows and not allowing licensees (OEMs) to preinstall Netscape, even though nothing prevented users from installing the software after the fact.

Umm, yeah, but Apple has this policy on their phones permanently, and I haven’t seen any regulation against that yet.

[xmprt]

Could be the case for Windows RT but I'm not sure if that's relevant in this case because RT has a small market share.

[boogies]

> Isn't this the case for Windows RT, or is that dead already?

IDK about RT but IIRC this is the main distinguishing factor of 10S

[stjohnswarts]

That was 20 years ago.