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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. Apple wouldn't be hurt... by argent · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.