A few years ago there were dissenting voices about the Microsoft anti-trust case, a good number of the voices will be incredulous with the news today that antitrust regulators, seeking further controls on Microsoft’s activities, dismissed Google, Firefox, Ajax and SaaS as “piddling players” that provide no real competition to Microsoft’s dominance.
Herein lies the problem with regulation of the marketplace – the fact is a businesses competencies gives them the opportunity to garner significant market share – Google owns standard search because it does it best – to regulate against that is nonsensical.
So to with IE and the Win OSs, people are voting with their feet, linux and MacOS are ascendant, technology will render operating systems irrelevant in the medium future, Firefox has significant market share and SaaS is revolutionising the desktop application space.
The current action makes no sense and will be detrimental to ourselves, the users of this stuff
Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. 