Microsoft is taking some emboldened steps toward bundling formerly separate apps and services in Windows 8.



From All About Microsoft:

For the longest time, bundling was a dirty word among Microsoft execs. It probably still is, given the trouble the Redmondians got into just a decade ago or so with U.S. antitrust authorities over “bundling Internet Explorer” with Windows.

In the end, the Department of Justice did not overrule Microsoft’s contention that its Internet Explorer browser was not a separate program, but a component of Windows. Now that the DOJ’s court-stipulated oversight is done over Microsoft, a Windows PC monopolist accused abusing its monopoly power, it seems the Softies feel bolder about bundling up a bunch of previously separate programs and services with the coming Windows 8 release.

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