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Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen

Posted by kdawson on from the vote-early-and-often dept.

An anonymous reader sends in coverage from Ars Technica of Microsoft's capitulation to the EU, after European regulators requested that Redmond bundle multiple browsers on new PCs. "Microsoft has decided that the last thing it needs in this economy is some combination of the following: fines, legal bills, and a delay of Windows 7. It has offered to adopt the European Union's preferred solution for browser competition: a browser selector screen at startup."

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  1. Re:In before the morons by Assmasher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why would that be moronic?

    Does Apple bundle non-Apple browsers with OSX?

    KDE and GNOME aren't operating systems, and Linux doesn't qualify because it is packaged (generally) in a distribution and there are many distributions to choose from with many different browsers so you can do your choosing that way.

    I have a hard time fathoming why Microsoft would have to do this but not Apple...

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  2. Re:Stupid people will still be stupid by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The internet is for porn. The internet is for porn. So grab your clit and double-click, the internet is for porn."

    My brother calls it Foxfire.
    He's dyslexic.

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