Tuxi’s Blog

On the Seattle Post Intelligencer blogs there is this post which states that the “NBC Olympics on the Go” will only be available to Windows Vista users. (ars technica has more information here.)

This just goes to show how powerful the Monoply is and also how stupid someone at NBC is. MS is trying to force their unwanted OS on users, and I can understand that motive. NBC, however, must be stupid to believe that there will be any significant market penetration for the “on the Go” service.

It’s obvious that I, as a Linux user, will not be able to use the service. However, there are three Windows boxes which I administer in my house which will also not be able to use the service! (You can also add my work Windows machine to increase the insult to users.)

Had NBC not thrown in with MS on this but had used Flash instead, all my machines would have been able to view content. Shame on you NBC!