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EU Accepts Microsoft's Browser Choice Promise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the so-that's-it-then dept.

itwbennett writes "Hurrah! The European Commission's antitrust investigation of Microsoft's position in the browser market is over. The EC has accepted Microsoft's commitment to offer users of 'Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a choice screen through which they can pick the browsers they want to install on their PC,' writes Peter Sayer in an article on ITworld. 'The screen will be offered to users in the European Union and some neighboring countries for the next five years via the Windows Update mechanism. In addition, PC manufacturers will be allowed to ship computers with competing Web browsers, as well as or instead of Internet Explorer.'"

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  1. Will this "FAIR" decision will include Apple? by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 1, Troll

    I sure hope the EU now forces APPLE to do the very same thing because Apple is far more controlling and "locked in" then Microsoft ever was.