Allan McBain

Bristol

Yield Manager

Microsoft - a Utility company.

Once upon a time there were electricity supply cables by the dozen running through our streets, each owned by a different company with its own standards for supply. At some point a standard became adopted, which means we ca all use electricity at any touch point and don't need re-training every time we want to plug something in.

Either the EU legislates that, for example, all electrical appliances have to be able to run on 110 volts as well as 220/240, or we should all accept that Microsoft has effectively become a utility company in the provision of operating systems and Office software and look to how we deal with that.

The simple answer would be to standardise it and regulate it in terms of price and universality of availability.

Or maybe Microsoft should just re-locate to France ;-)