It is convenient for Windows to come with the Internet Explorer browser, and they can install alternatives such as FireFox in a few minutes. What's the problem?
M$ ought to just tell the EU to live without Windows and Office from now on.
Mircosoft should simply ignore these fools just to see what happens.
“..............could defend its position in a hearing if it found that useful.”
I’m trying to think of an alternative means of someone who isn’t that familiar with computers installing an internet browser, and it’s not coming to mind very easily.
How did I install FireFox? Well, I logged onto Internet Explorer, typed in FireFox into Google, and downloaded it.
These anti-Microsoft fools are making life harder on everyone.
Careful, you’re not allowed to say anything negative about Apple or anything positive about Microsoft on this board.
You watch Microsoft will just have it programmed to automatically download with Windows Update anyways.
Jealous little EU. Any time anything is successful, it becomes a target for them. They’ve been after Microsoft for years.
I am curious how the Free Trader/Globalists are going to explain this one away...
Microsoft has no choice but to follow the EU....or they will lose a lucrative market. Lets see them try to recoup their European losses by selling to low-paid Asians and Latin Americans (good luck). Maybe they can adjust their browsers to not allow Falun Gong or Christian websites in Communist China...
I really have little sympathy for Microsoft....for they are so quick to fire Americans and hire foreigners....and campaign for the US to bring in illegals and H1-B visas. Their push to de-Americanize themselves has hit a huge roadblock...and their options are either bad...or not so good.
AAARRRUUUUUUUUUGGGAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Semper Fidelis
Dick G
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Does DeBeers know that they have anti trust rules in Europe
No sorrow here. Microsoft cheats. Microsoft used its operating system to promote Word which killed off Word Perfect. Microsoft used its operating system to promote Excel which killed off Lotus 1,2,3. Microsoft used its operating system to promote Explorer which killed off Netscape.
Microsoft stole Apple’s technology to develop Windows. Apple only responded in court too late and too little.
No question about it, Microsoft cheats.
Europe is going to be forced to buy something, and the thing will have to work. That’s irony.
So how can one download a competitive browser on one’s new OS installation if there's no browser at all? Going to have to have a browser installation CD on hand first... What about all the OS patches and drivers required on a new installation all requiring a browser?
Microsoft ought to remove it just to spite the EU. Then see how the people feel about their retarded bureaucrats in charge...
Microsoft may not be perfect, but it works for me far more hours a day than any of my Congressmen, and is a lot cheaper, too.
Microsoft should simply do as the EU demands, but then CHARGE every stinking European person TRIPLE the price to download and install Internet Explorer....
...especially after the EU geeks come to realize how indepsensible Microsoft and Internet Explorer really are in the world of computers.
So is the EU going to demand that Apple not ship Safari with OSX?
This silly attack by the EU has been going on for so long that it’s now completely irrelevant.
There are dozens of free browsers, so to speak of “innovation,” “competition,” and “choice” is preposterous.
You want a replacement for IE? Go to the Internet and download it in one minute, and another one minute to install it.
This is what happens when you have a bureaucracy that’s stuck on stupid.
And while I’m at it, is the EU going to demand that Linix not be free? It is a full OS which is drastically more substantial than just some Internet browser...
After all it is pretty hard to compete with free, just ask Netscape.
I wrote my own Notepad program. It’s unfair that Microsoft includes Notepad with Windows because it does not allow me to compete fairly with Microsoft’s Notepad, so they should take Notepad out of Windows.