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Originally Posted by Letum
My understanding is that either you will select the browser you want when
you buy the OS or you will be presented wit an option to download the one
you want once you have internet connectivity.
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This is a non issue really. First and foremost 99% of windows pc are sold with an oem license and guess what, its the OEM that will install a browser on the system before selling it to the consumer. And you want to guess WHICH browser they will choose ? Of course IE. As for the 1% of consumers that buy a retail license and install the operating system themselves, well I guess they are tech savy enough to have a copy of firefox or another browser on some usb pen, usb drive or floppy disc. Non issue at 100%.
The real problem, is that by unboundling IE from windows and putting the choice on the OEM, for the consumer there is really no choice at all.
Its like Henry Ford once said : "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black".
The EU comission has to enforce that browser choice be made available from within the operating system itself. Its the customer that has to choose which browser to use upon installation, and not the OEM deciding for him/her because we all know what they will choose. Microsoft had to comply with the EU comission decision, instead they took matters into their own hands to make a go-around the EU. I hope the EU fines them to death. Micorosoft is a company that deserves no respect, its like a bully defying continously the law.
There will be a time, when they step one step too far.