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EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What?

Posted by kdawson on from the foot-in-the-door dept.

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?"

4 of 911 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What next? I'll tell you what's next... by vawarayer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Users would be able to default-change their PC for a Mac, in a click of a button.

    Now we talkin'

  2. Re:Are you for freedom or not? by Max+Littlemore · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Should the Adobe Flash installer also include Silverlight? Should RedHat include a Slackware install disk?

    No and no. But Canonical should be forced to include Internet Explorer in the repositories.

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  3. Re:What about Apple then? by theurge14 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    With Safari all I have to do to uninstall it is drag it to the Trash.

    Can you do that to Internet Explorer on your Windows machine?

  4. Re:interesting times by A12m0v · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The UI on Windows is crap, on OS X it is much better but still spartan. That's though not what I meant by good. I was mainly referring to Safari's rendering engine (WebKit) being much more better than Trident.
    The 2nd line should have made it more obvious.

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