The Anti-IE: F'fox 3.6, Opera 10.50, Chrome 4.0, Safari

Staple Head said:

smsff7 said:

I kind of wish that option was not limited to just Europe it would be nice to download my browser in Windows update after I do a clean install

and trust microsour not to hack it before you get it.....................

They could hack your PC anytime when you run windows update

pebbly said:

living in the UK the pre ordered copy of win7 i bought was the ultimate N version no IE shipped with it then the EU allowed MS a little leeway to give the consumers a choice so they allowed MS to bundle IE back with the OS as long as they (the consumers) also could be given the addional choice of browser which means if i want to completely uninstall IE i can unlike the plain versions of the OS where you cannot completely uninstall, only hide it so i guess i was a lucky one

If it's not shipped with a browser, how do you access the internet?

Well seriously, if it doesn't come shipped with a browser how do you download one if you have no apparatus to view webpages with to begin with?

severedsolo said:

end of the day, ill hold my hands up and say im not an IE fan, i use it for 2 things.... downloading firefox, and playing poker as the software is IE based, i have no problem with it skulking in the background though, plenty of things use it, hell your internet options are tied into IE, i see no problem with MS shipping Windows with IE, i just choose not to use it, there are plenty of things i object to microsft doing, but shipping IE with windows isnt one of them

Microsoft didn't willingly make that decision: the European Union mandated that Microsoft do something to allow users to download other browsers.

motc7 said:

Well seriously, if it doesn't come shipped with a browser how do you download one if you have no apparatus to view webpages with to begin with?

Users were notified to download a web browser installation file in advance.

actually the browser choice screen was microsofts idea. the eu voted to make them remove ie altogether. microsoft panicked over that idea and was able to come to the ballot screen compromise with the eu.

motc7 said:

Well seriously, if it doesn't come shipped with a browser how do you download one if you have no apparatus to view webpages with to begin with?

We have a tutorial for that - https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...t-browser.html

z3r010 said:

motc7 said:

Well seriously, if it doesn't come shipped with a browser how do you download one if you have no apparatus to view webpages with to begin with?

We have a tutorial for that - https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...t-browser.html

Well, not to be argumentative here, but what's the use of that? I mean, why would someone want to have a batch file to download a browser, when they could just use another computer to download the setup file to a USB?