Microsoft: How to install a browser on Windows 7 E
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated drivers Microsoft have created a guidance page on the Windows 7 part of their website, detailing how users should go about installing a browser on Windows 7 E – the main version of Windows that will ship in the UK, that comes without a browser.
Users will be required to install an internet browser from external media, such as a USB pen drive or CD, as there will be no way of browsing the web without one otherwise.
Due to the EU pushing on with its anti-trust case against Microsoft, users buying Windows 7 E will have to find their own browser to use. Whilst users could of course just download their browser of choice, and save it on a pen drive, Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 8 available for order, on disk. The disk costs £3.44, excluding VAT. For many users, this will not be necessary, but Amazon.de is offering the Internet Explorer 8 disk as an extra anyway, for €3.99. Firefox is also available to order, from the Mozilla Store.
Windows N will be the same as Windows 7 E, but without a media player installed by default. Whilst some oppose the decision made by the EU, others believe it will offer other browsers a chance, such as Firefox and Opera. However, how well this will go down with those who buy Windows 7 E remains to be seen.
Whether or not browsers can be bundled in by computer manufacturers isn't stated on the site, but as it states that media players can be bundled, then it is assumed so. However, for system builders and everyone else, there will be no "browser selection" upon finishing installation, as some speculated. Instead, users will have to go back to basics, and find something to store it on, or, alternatively, order a browser on a disk.
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Comments(7)
fantastic new car supplied without stock wheels, you will have to buy your own and fit
them yourself. my mom has enough technical know how to do that for me - or just ask my
sister...
panic! panic! panic! m$ don't get their way and every one panics!
thanks got
other browsers will now get a luck in. i suppose there's a slim chance that some
developer somewhere might have the noggins to be able to creat a browser selector.
get a grip people. this may also encourage m$ to remove it from the so completely and
develop it at a much faster pace than what they do now. let us not forget, if m$ had their
way we would all still be using ie6. if was the other browsers that forced m$ to develop
ie7 onwards.
without a kick up the jacksie, m$ doesn't do anything.
cmd.exe
ftp ftp.mozilla.org
user:anonymous
password:anonymous
cd
pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/es-es
bin
mget "firefox
setup*.exe"
quit
the eu itself wont use this edition anyway. i think they will download win 7 u.s. version
in emule on their servers in the bunkers
never i will take eu version, i don't want firefox, opera and other browser...
just i want ie8!
at malestorm are you kidding right?
that decision was not from the ec, but from ms itself, so put the blame where it belongs.
anyway ms backed off from this decision and will now offer to install optional
browsers, which the ec accepted.
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Install your own wheels
By stoopid on 16.07.2009 - 06:07