There are lots of minor browsers, most with miniscule market share, so the first question that must be answered is "how many competitors do we want to introduce

There are lots of minor browsers, most with miniscule market share, so the first question that must be answered is "how many competitors do we want to introduce". On the one hand, a healthy market will have a lot of competitors; on the other hand a lot of these potential competitors will be niche products for a Very Good Reason (i.e. they're crap) and it would be unfair to make Microsoft present them as valid alternatives when they clearly are not (and it might tarnish the reputation of other, better browsers included in the same list). This is a very difficult question to answer in a fair, objective manner. One way might be to say "all browsers whose current market share on Windows is greater than x%", but you have to push the value of x pretty far down before your list of alternative browsers expands much beyond Firefox (ISTR Safari's ~4% share is almost exclusively on the Mac, and Opera is under 1% across all platforms). If it were possible to draw a convincingly fair line selecting Firefox, Opera and IE, that would be my preferred outcome. As to distribution, since every PC needs a default browser, I think the only reasonable thing is to let the non-IE browsers selected in the previous step compete with each other for OEM bundling deals, then legally restrain Microsoft to compete on the same level (price must be the average of the other competitors, no sneakily giving discounts on Office in exchange for IE bundling, etc.) Finally, this age-old misunderstanding from the article clearly needs to be addressed yet again: Surely if Microsoft is fined 900 million Euros for bundling a browser with an Operating System, the same should happen to Apple? Ever heard the phrase "go pick on someone your own size"? If you have a monopoly, by definition there is nobody your own size in your market, and hence there are things that other entities are allowed to do that you can't. APPLE IS NOT A CONVICTED MONOPOLIST, THEREFORE ANTI-TRUST RULES THAT APPLY TO MICROSOFT DO NOT APPLY TO APPLE.