Microsoft has been riddled with law suits filed by various companies that programs bundled along with its popular desktop operating systems have compromised them and put them at risk of going out of business.

It is a rather weak argument, considering that all these companies are competitors of Microsoft. By bundling all these softwares along with its Windows XP and Vista Operating Systems, Microsoft has sloten a march over its rivals. Microsoft is no evangelist. It does business. So do its rivals. I do not understand why it has to face lawsuits if it is bundling these add-ons to gain business.

Netscape was one of the first to do so. Sun, Google, Yahoo, you can continue to name a million companies claiming to be disadvantaged by MS. There will be a day when a manufacturer of an OS will sue MS for jeopardising its sales. Its just not done. Someone up there has to realise that taking Microsoft to court is not going to do any good. If they have to beat MS, they would need to make better software than it does. And if need be, develop an operating system too.

Mozilla and real have shown that it can be done. Firefox brwoser may not be the market leader, but it does command a decent market share, and has its dedicated band of loyalists. That is because its software is better than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Same case with Real. Real Player is way ahead of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player in more ways than one.

But do the lawmakers and law upholders think in that direction? Do they really understand the simple reason why Microsoft gets riddled by these suits? Well, if they do, then a lot of uneasy quibbles between these companies would be eliminated.

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