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I remember when Microsoft was fined for not offering other browsers to users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft-fined-browser-error h

I remember when Microsoft was fined for not offering other browsers to users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft-fined-browser-error https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft... . Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default, and it seems like nobody cares :/

chrisper 8y ago
Market share of Chrome OS is significantly less.
lern_too_spel 8y ago
https://www.howtogeek.com/357693/how-to-install-firefox-in-chrome-os/ https://www.howtogeek.com/357693/how-to-install-firefox-in-c...
simonh 8y ago
That laws suit was crazy. Every other competing OS came with a browser, and how are you even going to download a third party browser, if the OS doesn't come with a client you can use to download it with? The 'browser selection dialog' was just Bonkers. What if I wanted one that wasn't in the court-approved list? I need MS to install IE, so I can use it to go and get IceWeasel, or whatever. Leave them alone!
- cdh 8y ago
  > how are you even going to download a third party browser, if the OS doesn't come with a client you can use to download it with? Software was distributed offline as well. It seems like a long time ago now, but there was no shortage of AOL installation discs at the time. (In fact, I believe both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were distributed on floppy disks at one point, although that would have been long before the antitrust case.)
  - simonh 8y ago
    2001 was at an inflection point where it was very rapidly becoming clear that argument was archaic. In any case, the fact that everyone else was giving away browsers for free is hardly a great argument that Microsoft should be prevented distributing it for free also, and if they can why not let them bundle it? The world of 2001 was very rapidly becoming the connected world we're in now, and imposing a restriction on anyone like that now would just seem ludicrous and in fact user hostile, as it was. To me and I think anyone else paying attention back then, that was very obvious.
O1111OOO 8y ago
> Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default We live in weird times when there is (almost) only one browser left... Chrome (chrome-clones). The argument may soon be moot regardless of market share or other variables. (Of course, I'm stretching this a bit for effect but it's scary to think about).

chrisper 8y ago

Market share of Chrome OS is significantly less.

lern_too_spel 8y ago

https://www.howtogeek.com/357693/how-to-install-firefox-in-chrome-os/ https://www.howtogeek.com/357693/how-to-install-firefox-in-c...

simonh 8y ago

That laws suit was crazy. Every other competing OS came with a browser, and how are you even going to download a third party browser, if the OS doesn't come with a client you can use to download it with? The 'browser selection dialog' was just Bonkers. What if I wanted one that wasn't in the court-approved list? I need MS to install IE, so I can use it to go and get IceWeasel, or whatever. Leave them alone!

cdh 8y ago
> how are you even going to download a third party browser, if the OS doesn't come with a client you can use to download it with? Software was distributed offline as well. It seems like a long time ago now, but there was no shortage of AOL installation discs at the time. (In fact, I believe both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were distributed on floppy disks at one point, although that would have been long before the antitrust case.)
- simonh 8y ago
  2001 was at an inflection point where it was very rapidly becoming clear that argument was archaic. In any case, the fact that everyone else was giving away browsers for free is hardly a great argument that Microsoft should be prevented distributing it for free also, and if they can why not let them bundle it? The world of 2001 was very rapidly becoming the connected world we're in now, and imposing a restriction on anyone like that now would just seem ludicrous and in fact user hostile, as it was. To me and I think anyone else paying attention back then, that was very obvious.

O1111OOO 8y ago

> Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default We live in weird times when there is (almost) only one browser left... Chrome (chrome-clones). The argument may soon be moot regardless of market share or other variables. (Of course, I'm stretching this a bit for effect but it's scary to think about).