The same goes for 3rd-party apps as well. This whole fiasco with MS and the EC was just stupid, in my opinion. If a custerom wants another media player, he/she just has to DL one.
I greatly prefer OSes that are more modular than Windows, however, so that I can choose whether or not to allow a particular app to take up disk space. The whole "(whatever app) is essential to Windows and is highly integrated" argument is stupid as well. However, I now have a choice in which OS to use, while the EC decision was not about choices, but about power.
...(which include a €497 million fine...
I think this was all the EU was after. Everything else is just window dressing.
The same goes for 3rd-party apps as well. This whole fiasco with MS and the EC was just stupid, in my opinion. If a custerom wants another media player, he/she just has to DL one.It's no different than the browser issue here actually. I wonder when the Eurocrats will allow independent transmission producers to sue automakers for refusing to provide vehicles without transmissions so that customers can pick which they want.
-Eric