There is nothing new in these principles. They have been following them all along. Although I cannot speak for what they required vendors to do, the rest of the stuff has NEVER been an issue. You have ALWAYS been able to change your default search engine in IE. You have ALWAYS been able to set another browser as your default browser in Windows. Windows or IE NEVER redirected you from your desired site to one of their sites. Microsoft, Windows, or IE NEVER charged you for accessing non-MS sites.
What Brad Smith has done is raise the bar for every competing product. Can Firefox say that vendors can configure their browser install to default to Windows Live Search? Can Redhat be configured to default to another browser?
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There is nothing new in these principles. They have been following them all along. Although I cannot speak for what they required vendors to do, the rest of the stuff has NEVER been an issue. You have ALWAYS been able to change your default search engine in IE. You have ALWAYS been able to set another browser as your default browser in Windows. Windows or IE NEVER redirected you from your desired site to one of their sites. Microsoft, Windows, or IE NEVER charged you for accessing non-MS sites.
What Brad Smith has done is raise the bar for every competing product. Can Firefox say that vendors can configure their browser install to default to Windows Live Search? Can Redhat be configured to default to another browser?