Comments on: Microsoft stripping IE from Windows 7 just for Europe

By: Aquaadverse

Aquaadverse — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:22:19 +0000

Morons. I’ll expect Safari to be removed from OSX any day now.

If you’re too ignorant to understand browsers you should probably shouldn’t be using the internet.

Congratulations on not recognizing the EU just made a choice for you because you are too feeble and slow to do it yourselves.

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:20:43 +0000

Fred

You don’t need IE to do that.

This way gives users choices many were previously unaware of and begins down the road of stopping companies using their dominant position to force their own products on people.

Given the way IE is bundled (and at a very fundamental level) with MS’s OS it can hardly be said to be operating within a ‘market’.

We’re approaching the end game here.
MS have done the bit where they throw their tantrum and are now coming back to the table in a more reasonable frame of mind.

More power to the EU.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:53:54 +0000

And just how do you plan to download your browser of choice if your operating system has no web-browser preinstalled?

Users have plenty of choice – let them do as they please and stop interfering.

By: Neelie Smit Kroes

Neelie Smit Kroes — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:19 +0000

Nice. Microsoft is forced to strip core functionality like browsing capabilities while Apple can force customers to shop only at some telecom providers, force them to use an intendedly crippled OS and force them to only use applications that are approved by Apple, only to be downloaded at Apple, only by using rotten Apple software which digs into your system. It doesn’t make sense. The time that MS was over protective about its OS and was basically forcing customers to buy a PC with Windows are over since the early 2000′s. That was wrong. Nowadays you can buy a PC and do whatever you want. If you like Firefox instead of IE it’s no problem. If you like Google Desktop and Google Search then there is no problem.

The European Committee should reconsider its attitude. And those astronomical fines is just tax collecting. Customers pay it all in the end. Thank you EC for forcing us to buy a crippled OS for extra costs.