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EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What?
Glyn Moody writes "So the European Commission is going to require Microsoft to offer competitors' browsers with Windows. '...Microsoft will be obliged to design Windows in a way that allows users "to choose which competing web browser(s) instead of, or in addition to, Internet Explorer they want to install and which one they want to have as default..." [Microsoft] now has until mid-March to respond to the Commission, and might also ask for a hearing. Brussels will not adopt a final decision until it has received Microsoft's official reply.' But having the option to install Firefox, say, is useless unless people know what it is. The implication is that we need some kind of campaign to ensure that people understand the choices they will have. How can open source best exploit this latest EU decision?"
Most people will not notice a difference between any of the internets.
How about this:
Bill Nigh kicks Chuck Norris' ass before breakfast
Now, just start one about FireFox
Firefox is so badass that it doesn't care what OS it runs over .....
Firefox invented the Internet
Firefox killed the blue screen of death
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I certainly notice. I just the other day got - an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
The real question is, will the firefox use a different tube than the explorer? And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. So I think people will know if they're using the one or the other.
Safari is good!
You obviously haven't used it.
Time and time again, even with ie8, they have shown themselves inept at producing quality, standards-oriented software.
Yeah, and the worst thing is that it sells so well.
Really? And when did you last buy IE?
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
What? You don't have a flash drive (with firefox.exe on it) with you at all times?
it was windows 98, where internet explorer was removed and parts of it were replaced with parts of windows 95.
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