Probably not. I don't necessarily agree with the law suits against Microsoft right now over in Europe - honestly, most of the tech-savvy users have moved away from IE, and the ones who haven't probably wouldn't know what they were working with if you gave them something else anyhow. Either that, or IE is still used in an enterprise environment, in which case the IT specialists probably just don't want to field tech support calls from people who are trying to use the 'e' but can't find it.
That said, I did dislike the way MS dealt with competition back in the Netscape days - they have become considerably less 'evil', but a lot of that old animosity remains. I think it will eventually die off, but until then I think MS has an uphill battle with a lot of hackers out there. Plus, Microsoft bashing is something of a sport amongst Linux users like myself - I doubt I'll use Win7 just because I prefer the feature set and interface of Linux, but that doesn't mean that I necessarily thing it is a bad product (won't stop me from bashing WinME/Vista, though :-).
The EU courts, though - I think they are just trying to keep big American companies in check, give them a wake up call telling them that they can't think that the EU market is going to be business as usual. Intel is getting the same message, from what I've read.
That said, I did dislike the way MS dealt with competition back in the Netscape days - they have become considerably less 'evil', but a lot of that old animosity remains. I think it will eventually die off, but until then I think MS has an uphill battle with a lot of hackers out there. Plus, Microsoft bashing is something of a sport amongst Linux users like myself - I doubt I'll use Win7 just because I prefer the feature set and interface of Linux, but that doesn't mean that I necessarily thing it is a bad product (won't stop me from bashing WinME/Vista, though :-).
The EU courts, though - I think they are just trying to keep big American companies in check, give them a wake up call telling them that they can't think that the EU market is going to be business as usual. Intel is getting the same message, from what I've read.