Re: Office 2003 speech/handwriting recognition feature violates antitrust injunction?
From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/12/04
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:13:14 -0400
Who gives a s**t!
-- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bob" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:u30cw85NEHA.2740@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > In finally getting rid of ctfmon.exe, I discovered this article: > > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823586 > > I quote: > > "After you install Office and then you turn on speech recognition and > handwriting recognition, these features become part of the operating > system. > You cannot remove these features, even with the Maintenance Mode of Office > Setup." > > Is this a built-in OS feature, not related to Office 2003, which just gets > turned on as necessary? If not (in my very inexperienced assessment), I > would think it could be considered illegal because other, non-MS > applications don't have the luxury of permanently becoming part of > Windows. > Such low-level integration could be construed as an anticompetitive > advantage. > > Please fill me in if any of you are familiar with the legal stuff. > > Bob >
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