EU wants other browsers in Windows
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft’s plans for Windows 7 to allow users to disable Internet Explorer don’t go far enough, the EU is thinking.
CRN reports that the Wall Street Journal reports that the EU wants to force Microsoft to bundle other browsers - I’m thinking Opera and Firefox - with Windows. A startup screen would ask users which browser they want to be their default.
The story said the EU may require Microsoft to offer a so-called ballot screen that would give new computer users a choice of browsers and the ability to designate one as the default browser. It may also demand that Microsoft contractually require computer manufacturers to keep the ballot screen on the systems they ship.
My guess is Microsoft doesn’t go along with this plan and another brutal new season of EU-Microsoft litigation unfolds.
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Comments(8)
i've always wondered . . .
if the eu got what it really wanted; ie to be removed
from windows totally . . . how would the average user manage to download another browser?
it's microsoft's product, they should be able to do with it what they want.
i hope you're being jocular, since this is my first post here. :-)
i do get
the joke though, provided it is a joke. ;-)
what are you people talking about?
why not add an extras disk freeware and se software i am sure that there would be a lot
of software any company would give away with the release of windows 7
cause real-people(tm) - i was going to say real-men(tm), but im sure there are ladies in
the audience - as i was saying, real-people(tm) dont care about lousy oses like apple
stuff. and i sure hope microsoft starts bundling firefox, it would save me the hassle of
slipstreaming it.
christ on a bike! maybe they can get m$ to bundle a few linux distros with windoze so
uzers can have a choice of os and lifestyle....what a freaking world we.....ah, never
mind.
i'll fight them in the beaches....those eu bitches!
maybe they should force apple to unbundle safari so that a mac user may use anything they
wish.... oh no... it only applied to microsoft in their own software! i'm quite capable
of downloading any browser i want... i dont need eu tossers deciding which i should be
able to pick from!
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Amazing.
By Mic on 02.06.2009 - 02:06