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I live in the EU and have legal install of windows for XP,Vista and Win7 and can saftly say I already installed another browser and found the whole chose one op
by Zenst 14y ago
I live in the EU and have legal install of windows for XP,Vista and Win7 and can saftly say I already installed another browser and found the whole chose one option provided as a required patch most annoying.
Sad thing is any user at the level of not being able to install a alternative browser are also the users more prone to have botnets and other malware installed upon there compter. That is the real issue that the EU has not addressed, Microsoft offered a alternative idiot install alternative and I for one found it most annoying.
The EU have better area's to attend to thesedays and I'd hate to suddenly find out one day that chromebooks suddenly have to offer Microsoft browsers as a alternative, or iPad's demanding user pick another browser or not.
It is when there is no alternative choice and for windows that has never been the case to date (not sure about tablet windows flavours). That can not be said for other operating systems and iOS at some point was a little rejecting of alternative browsers in its central dominating app store. Windows had netscape before microsoft had a browser, always been alternatives and easy to install and associate. The only issue is that they expect people who are unable to handle that trivial task on the internet blindly without even saying no Microsoft they must pick a antivirus program before they connect to the internet. That would of been useful inforcement, but nope.
At times I do wonder if I sent in a CV on punched cards to the main EU office that they would not only accept it and convert onto 8" floppy disc for me for free. I think that is an old joke, but there again so is the point in time the EU are on about and even then they missed the real issue.
- zizee 14y agoA key difference between Microsoft Windows and other operating systems is that it was declared a monopoly. Being deemed a monopoly Microsoft Windows is held to different standards to all the other options that you mentioned. That said, I think that we are approaching at time when Microsoft shouldn't be considered a monopoly. did that happen just in the US, or did it also happen in the EU?