Windows 7E will you buy it?

ikilledkenny said:

besides, it's not ms's fault. More people use firefox than ie.

oops.!

Nothing against IE, I´m happy to get it and happy when I don´t get it. It´s just that I´ve used FF as long as I can remember so I do not need it.

But I think we are forgetting something important in this W7E-issue. Of course EU´s decision sucks, IE is an integrated part of Windows and should of course come with the installation packet.

But behind this for us so interesting decision is a bigger principal issue. These laws in EU are designed to give consumers more choice with less cost. An example: when a big European airline company wants to buy another big European airline company, EU probably says NO WAY if the new companys market share would be too big. They think if somebody has too big marketshare, this company could use it´s position to force smaller companies out of business thus getting free hands to raise prices and dictate everything. More competition equals lower prices, that´s one of the main principals in capitalism.

This antitrust legislation gives EU no choice. If it is used (like many times in recent years) against airlines, retailers, media corporates and such, they had to use it against MS when the complaint was made.

Personally I have to add I am maybe not so EU critical than some other users of this forum. As a citizen of one EU-country, living in another EU-country and working in a couple more EU-countries, I see the benefits of this system daily, both in my privat and business life.

This is a personal opinion. It is not meant to offence anybody nor it is meant to be an absolut fact. Like I said, it is just an opinion.

wysiwyg said:

oops.!

60 percent of the people using IE don't know how to download and install apps :)

Mercurial said:

60 percent of the people using IE don't know how to download and install apps :)

Pull the other one.

Dzomlija said:

I voted an emphatic NO. I will not be purchasing Windows 7 E, for several reasons:

1. First and foremost is because Windows is a Microsoft product, and Microsoft therefore has the right to decide what they will or will not include in their own products. Nobody has the right to dictate what can and cannot be done to something that does not belong to them.
2. If Microsoft must remove IE from Windows, then Apple must remove Safari from OSX, and all the various flavors of Linux must also not include a browser.
3. If the browser competition really does not like the majority share of IE, then they need to get their acts together and improve their products in order to begin providing browsers that actually do work better than IE. IE is the better choice not because of bully or monopoly tactics - it's the better choice because it's the better product.
4. Windows 7 E will probably not be available in South Africa...

It all comes down to this:

A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither. - Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)

Agreed.....100%, Well put