Microsoft continues it's bad old ways

Convicted of abusing it's monopoly before to 'cut off the air supply' of Netscape Navigator Microsoft has been trying to break the terms of it's, very microsoft friendly, settlement.

The disputed plan, part of a marketing campaign known as "easy start," would have affected portable music devices that compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod. It would have precluded makers of those devices from distributing to consumers music software other than Microsoft's own Windows Media Player, in exchange for Microsoft-supplied CDs.