The EU's browser ballot was a solution to the wrong problem. The problem wasn't that IE had a monopoly within Windows; it was that Windows had a monopoly on com

The EU's browser ballot was a solution to the wrong problem. The problem wasn't that IE had a monopoly within Windows; it was that Windows had a monopoly on computer OSes. (And Microsoft actively reinforced it by saying that if you sell other OSes on a “PC” they won't let you sell Windows.)