The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: MIT computer scientist takes stand in support of Microsoft
He said the software is […] “like […] a house of cards.”
Perhaps not the comparison anyone at Microsoft would have chosen . . . .
But he did concede that a. Windows 95 worked without a browser (because in 1995, the Internet wasn’t a threat) and b. no other OS has a built-in browser. So how difficult is it figure out that the dependency on the browser is completely contrived? That the dependency exists solely to be a dependency?
It’s a measure of how threatening a world with true consumer choice is to the world’s largest software company that they are willing to work this hard to protect their position.