{"id":375,"date":"2008-02-27T10:29:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T10:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2008-02-28T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:42:28","slug":"microsoft-fined-again-for-ripping-off-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/microsoft-fined-again-for-ripping-off-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fined again for ripping-off consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the language is a bit strong, but it is meant only to alert the Microsoftphiles to the reality that economic bullying is as unattractive as the physical stuff that happens in school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7266629.stm\">Microsucks has been fined again by the EU<\/a> &#8211; over \u20ac 1 billion this time.\u00a0 No wonder <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7222199.stm\">Yahoo doesn&#8217;t want to be bought by them<\/a>.\u00a0 As for their software &#8230; Vista is still overpriced and buggy. Their recent Vista Service Pack resolves few of the real problems and XP is still in demand. \u00a0 It is unfortunate that consumers do not consider ethics when they choose IT providers.\u00a0 If they did MS and Google would be on a more level playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the language is a bit strong, but it is meant only to alert the Microsoftphiles to the reality that economic bullying is as unattractive as the physical stuff that happens in school. Microsucks has been fined again by the EU &#8211; over \u20ac 1 billion this time.\u00a0 No wonder Yahoo doesn&#8217;t want to be &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/microsoft-fined-again-for-ripping-off-consumers\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft fined again for ripping-off consumers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-63","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}