M$ should exercise its right in the free market: pull out your product completely off Europe, until the ungrateful EU falls on their knees begging for MS Windows back.
Actually, I would love to see MS pull it's product. It would entice a great many developers to think about their next platform and how they plan on selling it. It's not like the world is going to end by MS not selling. People will still use what they have now, but they will have to start looking elsewhere. (And that's a good thing, IMHO.) People will definitely start looking at cross platform.
If that is true... don't you think that that's the whole problem here? Seriously. Anyone with that much power over a region or the world should be seriously controlled or divided and forced to comply to standards set by a third party with no partisan.
They have sold product to customers. Yes. Sold. Product. The crap about "licensing the program" doesn't work in Europe. Consequently, they are obliged to fulfill the support duties to their customers.
At least that's how consumer rights are in Germany. Here we can resell CD/DVD with OEM Windows freely. We paid money for it after all. So MSFT is obliged under law. It cannot quite market arbitrarily for pretty long time. (10 years in Germany: for decade they have to maintain all the related bureaucracy just in case something would pop up. Even if they are not selling their products here anymore.)
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M$ should exercise its right in the free market: pull out your product completely off Europe, until the ungrateful EU falls on their knees begging for MS Windows back.
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Actually, I would love to see MS pull it's product. It would entice a great many developers to think about their next platform and how they plan on selling it. It's not like the world is going to end by MS not selling. People will still use what they have now, but they will have to start looking elsewhere. (And that's a good thing, IMHO.) People will definitely start looking at cross platform.
It would hurt Microsoft more than the EU.
Well actually your wrong. If Microsoft so wishes it can terminate the License and ask you to return all copies of the software as stated in EULA.
So, yes they could say that in six months all Microsoft software must cease to be used in the EU and that WOULD cause pain to the EU.
But then I don't think that Microsoft would do that, they are not childish.
If that is true... don't you think that that's the whole problem here? Seriously. Anyone with that much power over a region or the world should be seriously controlled or divided and forced to comply to standards set by a third party with no partisan.
If that is in the EULA, it should be evidence.
I agree with Roberto.
They can't. EU isn't US.
They have sold product to customers. Yes. Sold. Product. The crap about "licensing the program" doesn't work in Europe. Consequently, they are obliged to fulfill the support duties to their customers.
At least that's how consumer rights are in Germany. Here we can resell CD/DVD with OEM Windows freely. We paid money for it after all. So MSFT is obliged under law. It cannot quite market arbitrarily for pretty long time. (10 years in Germany: for decade they have to maintain all the related bureaucracy just in case something would pop up. Even if they are not selling their products here anymore.)