[Fsf-friends] Globalisation Institute calls for Unbundling Microsoft Windows

[Anivar Aravind]

Globalisation Institute Brussels, calls for Unbundling Pre Installed Windows

Computers in the European Union should be sold without a bundled 
operating system, according to this submission to the European 
Commission. It says that the bundling of Microsoft Windows with 
computers is not in the public interest, and prevents meaningful 
competition in the operating system market.


Operating systems, it says, are not a natural monopoly, requiring just 
one supplier. Instead, in a competitive market, there would be a broad 
compatibility between different supplier’s products. “Competition would 
encourage open standards and interoperability as vendors would, for 
competitive reasons, want their products to interact with other vendors’ 
products,” the submission says.


Full Report is here
http://www.globalisation.eu/publications/unbundlingmicrosoftwindows.pdf

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