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...competition commissioner, says Microsoft's previous approach denied consumers a fair choice. "It is as if you went to the supermarket and they only offered you one brand of shampoo on the shelf, and all the other choices are hidden out the back," Kroes said. "What we are saying today is that all the brands should be on the shelf." The settlement won't have a direct effect on the U.S. market, although it could lead to increased pressure on the company to open its systems to rivals there...
...Microsoft has always insisted that people had a choice of browsers. The company says that with the settlement, European Windows users will now simply be more aware of their options. "They're all used today, so that doesn't really change," says Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice president and general counsel in Redmond, Wash. (Read "Google's Chrome: Taking Aim at Microsoft - and the iPhone...
Maybe Harvard students today have too much else to do or too much to lose. Maybe we just have a stronger stomach for tyranny than our Revolutionary forefathers. The lack of hot breakfast glares as a public symbol that our administration is too careless and too calloused to even keep us fed, that they have hardly progressed since the 1700s. The UC has done nothing, between incendiary e-mails and media stunts for relevance, but found an “Idea Bank” as an “outlet” to silence our concerns. Most of us will...
...mayor in the nation's fourth largest city, in the South, in Texas, shows that when Americans get to know gay people as people, not as stereotypes, their resistance to treating gay people equally reduces," Evan Wolfson, director of Freedom to Marry, a gay-marriage advocacy group, told USA Today. (See a two-minute bio of Annise Parker...
Besides Nike, several other Woods sponsors may escape unscathed. Sure, the ugly headlines are a p.r. disaster. But who knows if any business will be materially impacted by the Woods scandal? Bottom line: sponsors shouldn't overreact. "You can't just look at today," says Ganis. "There's just so much to this story that has yet to be written...