Srdjan Popovic

LinkedIn Has Management Change as Recessionary Usage Increases

While the usage of LinkedIn free services is indeed likely to be countercyclical, do you suspect that this will be the case with upgraded accounts which represent one of their major sources of income? Are their paid services used for online schmoozing or by HR professionals? Does an average job seeker need them and how badly?

Will Adobe Scream 'Anti-Competitive' in the Face of a Microsoft Attack?

But the EU did not force them to drop pepperoni from the menu, only to let the customers choose if they want pepperoni or not. And it did not make the customers have to go elsewhere, they did not forbid anyone to install these programs from Microsoft. The point was to make installation of these programs optional.

When you buy a new car you can usually choose which CD player you want inside. From the EU perspective, if the car producer also makes CD players, they must allow the customers to choose if they want their player or another one, from another producer. We may like it or hate it, but that is the EU competition law.

Will Adobe Scream 'Anti-Competitive' in the Face of a Microsoft Attack?

From the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition perspective it doesn't matter if a program is installed on 98% or 8% of PCs, and they are right, it shouldn't matter as long as it is the customer's choice. The problem with Microsoft was that the programs were bundled with operating system and pre-installed for users, who did not have the right to choose not to install them, except by giving up on the OS or by uninstalling them later. It is about freedom of choice, not about percentages of users.

Is the Microsoft Empire Cracking?

From "Microsoft still dominates client OS market for the businesses for now." and "No serious competition to Office." you conclude "Now, when this monopoly itself is under question, what can Microsoft do?".

And on what basis can you say "Every successful OS right now is UNIX or Linux based." if Windows has 90% of the market? How do you define successful?

I understand that you like Linux. I like it, too. I am using Linux as OS on boxes running my web servers and will continue to do so. But I prefer Windows desktops, as most users do.