What are we going to do with you, Microsoft? You willingly enter into a consent decree to settle a highly publicized anti-trust lawsuit, yet every time we check in on you there seems to be a problem. It's as though your heart really isn't in this.
Latest
example, courtesy of CNET:
Microsoft is falling behind in meeting certain obligations under its antitrust agreement with the U.S. government, the Bush administration said.
The criticism, leveled by federal and state prosecutors in a document filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, largely surrounded the company's progress in developing technical documentation for developers who license the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program.
Sure, we think it's boring too, but you've gotta keep your eye on the ball! You can't just say you're "working hard to resolve the concerns." It's just like Elaine Benis said to Kramer in one episode of Seinfeld: "There is no 'try.' There's 'do' and 'not do.'" Or maybe it was Yoda in
The Empire Strikes Back.
And this
isn't the first time we've had to talk to you. In October you were trying to boss people around about media player software. When a
federal judge called you to the carpet, you expressed "chagrin" and promised to conduct "a very serious inward look at (your) compliance efforts."
Well, it appears some more soul-searching is in order. Now go to your room, and no Internet for a week.
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