EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 26, 2009 @03:57AM from the could-they-force-me-a-sandwich dept.

Barence writes "The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. The revelation came as part of Microsoft's quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the statements is a clause outlining the penalties being considered by the European watchdog, which recently ruled that Microsoft is harming competition by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The most interesting situation outlined in the filing would see either Microsoft or computer manufacturers forced to install Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari by default alongside Internet Explorer on new Windows-based PCs."

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Also by rlp · 2009-01-26 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

How 'bout requiring that each copy of Vista ship with a Ubuntu disk labeled 'Vista Service Pack 2'.

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Re:And What of the Others? by jank1887 · 2009-01-26 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny

but what about my off-network pc where I still need something to view on-disk HTML files? and I have no floppy or CD or usb for copying a browser install file that was downloaded on another machine. and there's no keyboard for me to manually create a new browser from source, and I couldn't install a compiler anyway. and... hmmm... okay I'm out.