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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 778350">People started to complain about Microsoft security way before there was ever an antivirus product for consumers to purchase.3rd parties provide better protection than Microsoft. That&#039;s all that matters.And yes, Microsoft does things unilaterally and uses its position to make things much more difficult and problematic for 3rd party publishers... way more difficult than they need to be. That stifles competition and\or causes inordinately difficult problems.Microsoft would like nothing more than to make the entire world a 100 % Microsoft product-only world. If you don&#039;t believe that is true, then I don&#039;t know what to tell you. Because that is exactly what it is trying to do. And it will do whatever it can to accomplish that.Anyway you cut it, Microsoft is a monopoly. It has a grip (some would say stranglehold) on most things IT like no other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 778350"] People started to complain about Microsoft security way before there was ever an antivirus product for consumers to purchase. 3rd parties provide better protection than Microsoft. That's all that matters. And yes, Microsoft does things unilaterally and uses its position to make things much more difficult and problematic for 3rd party publishers... way more difficult than they need to be. That stifles competition and\or causes inordinately difficult problems. Microsoft would like nothing more than to make the entire world a 100 % Microsoft product-only world. If you don't believe that is true, then I don't know what to tell you. Because that is exactly what it is trying to do. And it will do whatever it can to accomplish that. Anyway you cut it, Microsoft is a monopoly. It has a grip (some would say stranglehold) on most things IT like no other. [/QUOTE]

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