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Microsoft Windows 7 and Internet Explorer
European versions of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating will not include a copy of the company’s Internet Explorer browser, as a result of the software company’s long-running tangle with officials in Brussels.
After a series of run-ins with European regulators that have cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in fines in recent years, Microsoft announced yesterday that it would be removing copies of Internet Explorer from copies of Windows 7 available in the EU when the system goes on sale in October.
According to Dave Heiner, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, the company will not be including Internet Explorer in versions of Windows 7 that it supplies to computer manufacturers or retailers.
“We’re committed to making Windows 7 available in Europe at the same time that it launches in the rest of the world, but we also must comply with European competition law as we launch the product,” he said.
“Given the pending legal proceeding, we’ve decided that instead of including Internet Explorer in Windows 7 in Europe, we will offer it separately and on an easy-to-install basis to both computer manufacturers and users.”
I’ve got mixed opinions on the whole Internet Explorer and Windows thing, for a few reasons, how many users will download it anyway? Does not having a browser installed by default in the operating system restrict it’s functionality to the end user? Could we not just ask that Microsoft Bundle FireFox, Google’s Chrome say and have an icon on the desktop giving the user choice? Do users know about the other browsers if they weren’t installed? A topic that will continue, at least Microsoft are complying with the legislation I suppose.
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