another service.
"Microsoft is saying to consumers, to OEMs and, most importantly, to the Department of Justice, 'We own the desktop, and there's nothing you can do about it,' " he said.
Certainly, Microsoft's July concessions have been considerably hedged. It has a case that the hedging is promoting user choice. After all, why should OEMs be permitted to limit choice by excluding Microsoft?
But unlike Microsoft, the OEMs aren't monopolies. Their power to buy into exclusive deals is not so restrained. This issue will likely be a hot one in remedy and settlement talks that are part of Microsoft's antitrust suit. There, the shackles of the original federal ruling might begin to bite into Redmond's flesh.
