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In the EU we got a pop-up letting us choose a different browser. Beyond that it didn't have much effect directly but it also stopped Microsoft been so hilariou
by noir_lord 6y ago
In the EU we got a pop-up letting us choose a different browser.
Beyond that it didn't have much effect directly but it also stopped Microsoft been so hilariously agressive in other ways (though that's a harder effect to pin down, 2000-era Microsoft was a shark with bloodlust).
- judge2020 6y ago> In the EU we got a pop-up letting us choose a different browser Wonder what it'll take for this to come to all of the other OSes with default browsers
- wmf 6y agoThose OSes would have to have monopoly market share.
- eythian 6y agoI'm not sure if it was the same antitrust thing, but there was a lot of stuff in the background that did happen along these lines. I knew some folks working on Samba, and all of a sudden they were going to workshops run my MS and getting documentation and so on to aid integrating with Windows.