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Microsoft Finally Decides To Cut Down On Lawyers’ Workloads

After more than a decade of legal battles with the U.S. Justice Department and the EU, Microsoft has rather quietly decided to give everybody what they want: Windows 7 will allow you to uninstall Internet Explorer, as well as other apps such as Windows Media Player.

Finally.

Hmm … Is that the clinking of champagne glasses I hear over at the DoJ? Nope. At least not for Christine A. Varney, nominated by President Obama to be Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust:

“For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem.”

See? Even the government realizes that the desktop isn’t the issue any more. So who do they have in their sights now? Google.

Sure hope all those Obama campaign contributions work out for them.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).