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the general caution about antitrust that then pervaded the Microsoft culture Thats certainly wrong. They at some point just stopped shipping the browser choice
by revelation 13y ago
the general caution about antitrust that then pervaded the Microsoft culture
Thats certainly wrong. They at some point just stopped shipping the browser choice utility they had been forced by the EU to ship, and it took a year for anyone to notice:
The Windows 7 SP1 retail release was initially missing BrowserChoice.eu functionality, affecting 28 million computers. The error remained unpatched for 14 months, and as a result in March 2013 the European Commission fined Microsoft €561 million.
- Argorak 13y agoIt didn't take a year for anyone to notice, it took a year until the investigation was finished and another fine was announced. Concerning that Microsoft is a test-obsessed company, failing to test properly for an error that could cost you multiple millions is also a huge blunder. This was failing to live up to a legal oblication, not a mere bug.
- rbanffy 13y agoIt was failing with a legal obligation and trying to get away with it, hoping nobody else would notice. Do you really thing they forgot to bundle the browser selection tool?
- Argorak 13y agoQuite the opposite, I find it highly unlikely that they would gamble on an amount that equates to that size, especially as there are a number of competitors watching out. And yes, I can imagine such a failure with a build matrix as big as the one of windows. A very simple explanation would be: * QA department sits outside of europe * Department is improperly briefed (not that unlikely to happen) * Automatic tests fail (happens to the best of us)