The eu is within their legal rights to fine microsoft – in fact they need the money.

But banning ishighly unlikely to happen, no matter how much you rant.

The thing about a psychopath is that while they can pretend to be normal, they cannot “toe the line”. It’s not in their DNA. They never say anything in public that’s not spun 100K rpm. They rarely say anything in private that’s “for the record”. They made their OS, their EULA, their corporate environment as complex as they could to accomplish all kinds of hidden agendas in everything they do, none of it good for competition. They do this despite it not being good for their business and not good for their product and not good for the end-users, because they are addicted to the cash-flow. They will do anything for that “hit” including self-destruction. No rational person can see a good end for the Wintel monopoly but everyone plays along as best they can hoping to pick up scraps. When it falls, everyone will run for the doors. The OEMs are mostly dabbling with FLOSS and ARM and soon will be capable of independent flight. M$ is aware of this but does not care. They only care to maximize the total return on investment in evil. That means turning the screws on the addicts, not competing on price/performance.

I bet they will toe the line then.