Microsofts Explains European Version Of Windows 7
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just finished reading a press release from Microsoft which explains why Internet Explorer was removed from Windows 7, when it is released in Europe. Though the description of what and why Microsoft is doing explains their attempt to comply with the European Unions request, what I found of interest were some of the comments.
Like this one:
What happens when people upgrade to Windows 7 E on an existing pc? Will they end up with a browserless OS?
Interesting point.
Well, good for MS. I guess you decided to make lemonade from the lemons the EU is providing. To ensure fairness, can we expect the EU to force Linux distros to unbundle Firefox? Apple to unbundle Safari? Android (Real, others) to unbundle Chrome? Or is this in fact about remaking the market in the EU’s image by allowing competitors unfetered ability to do what only MS is restricted from doing?
One could argue now that Firefox has a high market share in Europe, it would only seem fair that Firefox be removed from all Linux distributions.
So how would we download and install a browser without a browser?
Good point. I thought the same thing. Not all consumers have more than one computer in their home.
This was brought about by the makers of the Opera Browser continually complaining to the European Commission, about the “unfair advantage” that Microsoft had with IE bundled with its Operating Systems. It will be interesting to see how many consumers will choose to install Opera as their choice of browser when Windows 7 is released to market. Opera is a good browser, I am currently using it to view this page, but I am going to dump it and use an alternate browser because I will not support businesses that ask Governments to obstruct their competitors, in order to improve market share. They shouldn’t be in business if they have to resort to this sort of cry baby tactic. It is pathetic!
If this is true than it is pathetic. However, it isn’t anything any other government hasn’t done before.
One more point of Interest. Since the European version won’t have a browser, there will be no upgrade path only a clean install.
Comments welcome.
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Zenium
June 13th, 2009
at 1:23pm
It just means the PC vendors will add one or more browser versions to a CD included with the PC.
Another interesting consequence will be people creating browser installation CDs and charging for the distribution media. Or a marketing genius will figure out a way to create browser CDs with paid for advertisement that you must watch before you can install the browser of your choice.
Maybe the PC vendors will charge the browser makers a distribution fee to have the browser included in browser CD.
Bottom line, someone will figure out how to make money selling this bad lemonade.
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June 13th, 2009
at 3:30pm
Item 1: Internet Explorer poses a grave security hazard to Windows and users of Windows.
Item 2: Microsoft doesn’t allow the user to uninstall IE or even choose if it’s there to begin with.
I can remove Firefox on Linux or choose if it’s even ever there.
Item 3: Internet Explorer does not conform to accepted industry standards and deliberately refuses to support them or botches them to encourage people to use proprietary Microsoft stuff instead.
Item 4: “So how would we download and install a browser without a browser?”
The “ballot screen” could download the one you choose with a wget-like utility.
On Linux you could just use your package manager because Linux does not make you use 1,000 different random, possibly malware-infected sites to get software from.
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Internet Explorer has warped and perverted the supposedly “open” internet with its unfair and unnatural advantage provided to it by Windows marketshare.
It’s high time someone stopped them, I congratulate the EU for picking this battle for an interoperable internet.
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Hotrao
June 14th, 2009
at 5:53am
I think that this Microsoft decision gives more problems than advantages.
I also think that EU decision brings only confusion to the browser’s arena.
For the nth time, in order to protect interests of a minority (means opera and other small browsers), majority will have problem and disadvantages.
It’s not a problem of unbundling IE, it’s the problem of bringing real choices to consumers that counts.
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