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Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen
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."
Wow. How hard was that, Microsoft?
You'll get used to it eventually, playing by the rules I mean. Just like the rest of us, you're not above the law.
Parity: What to do when the weekend comes.
a way of verifying software integrity [md5 at the least]
MD5 hasn't been a way of verifying software integrity for a while now. Microsoft would be doing the world a great disservice by enabling people to distribute software through a synaptic-like program with only md5 verification.
Better:
However, I don't like the idea; your hard drive would be full of nothing but operating systems that you would have to install or wipe. Better would be to have the computer manufacturer preinstall other OSes on its machines, and you would choose OS when you bought your computer.
Free Martian Whores!
Thank you. I've always wondered why the fuck it's important to regulate software that's free.
Why is browser market share even important? It's not worth any money to anyone. Do browser companies get a cut of money for every ad their programs load or something? It seems like this is a huge developer e-peen measuring contest.
I wonder if Firefox can now sue Opera because Opera's bright red icon stands out as more noticeable than Firefox's orange-bluish mix?
The number of people buying a Mac to run anything but Mac OS X is negligible. The machines are overpriced, underpowered, pointlessly quirky, only redeemed by the OS... which makes the Mac Tax worth paying after all.
You know what, I really, truly hope that MS would pull out of the EU. Considering most countries outside of the EU and north American probably pirate windows quite heavily, I would like to see MS efectively give up 50% of their sales. I want to see them say that then crawl back asking someone to have them.