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Quite simply, the people who know how to use command line tools to install their favourite browsers would be significantly smaller than the number of people who
by froo 17y ago
Quite simply, the people who know how to use command line tools to install their favourite browsers would be significantly smaller than the number of people who would install firefox as a default browser when IE comes pre-installed.
So in essence, all this does is penalise everyone else except the command-line users, which would be a quite small subset of the total possible userbase. Essentially hurting the web rather than helping it.
- sounddust 17y agoOk, in all seriousness, It's very likely that there will be an icon on the desktop, such as "Set Program Access and Defaults," which will open an application to let you choose from a number of popular browsers, in which people can rate the browsers. That's how the search engine selector works in IE. In most cases, the OEM/vendor will have already chosen a "bootstrap" browser. From the article: The company said it would make it easy for PC makers and users to get at and install the web browsing program.