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IE Not Faring Well In the EU Ballot
unixcrab writes "Most PC users hit the web using Internet Explorer by default, simply because that's what came along with Windows. Now, after antitrust investigations, European users get a choice of browser to install via ballot screen, and initial reports are not good for 'ol IE. According to Statcounter, IE use in France has dropped 2.5 percent since last month's implementation of the ballot, 1.3 percent in Italy, and 1 percent in Britain. It's still early days, and it'll take more than this to chip away from IE's 62 percent lead in the browser war, but it's certainly not a good trend for Microsoft. With that in mind, we're going to have to ask you to place your bets now."
This is what happens in a socialist paradise like Europe.
The "Evil Corporation's" web browser is forced to showcase it's rivals on an equal footing. The best product wins and free market capitalism dies a little.
Glenn Beck just urinated on his producer.
Individualthink is not allowed here. Report to your nearest behavior modification center, citizen!
My mum uses "The Internet." I had to rename the IE shortcut on the desktop so she'd stop asking me how to get onto the internet.
This box caused me no end of hassle with my grandfather thinking he had a virus, my mum asking what was on the other internets, and my dad passing all of these calls on to me because he's sick of explaining it.
It's a big F*** You to Europe. It'll irritate so many people that we'll hate Europe for making MS do it. I already do.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
People always had a choice. Nobody is forced to buy Microsoft's products. But most people want a good deal, and so buy whatever is cheapest. To them, browser choice is not as important as having more money to spend on other pursuits. So it is voluntary trade to mutual benefit, and thus is win-win. Now that Microsoft is forced to advertise for its competitors, it is no longer win-win.
Well, there's a lot of begging of the question in your historical summary, but you left out one obvious historical scenario:
PHB: Your web pages are late, what's the problem?
You: Well, everything works OK in IE but I'm still trying to get things to render correctly for standards-compliant browsers like Firefox.
PHB: Fire-what? Everybody uses IE. if you don't want it to be Fire-you, button this up and release it. Ha, Ha. Slaps you on the back and walks back to flirt with his secretary
This works as well
$ rm -Rf C:\windows
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
Have you ever tried to use an operating system without a built-in html renderer?
Get off my lawn, you little baby.
'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Now if there could just be a "Pick your OS" pull-down on first boot ...
I felt a strange disturbance in the MSForce when you wrote that.
It was as though a thousand Redmond executives cried out in pain...
I am anarch of all I survey.