Windows 7E will you buy it?

[ikilledkenny]

Opera sucks. Period.

 

[matt_0978]

With Microsoft opting to exclude Internet Explorer from Windows 7 in the European Union, the big question is 'Will you buy Windows 7E?'.

My answer is 'HELL NO!!! I'm not supporting the EU in any way!!! I'd like the freedom to choose what Internet Browser I use, not have it dictated to me or removed all together!!!' i'm gonna buy the US version & hope it works with no issues

   Warning

If you do not download an Internet Browser & save to another source before installing Windows 7E you will NOT have access to the internet

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how u gonna do tht bud? don't think they'll ship it out of the states. would it not be possible to download the RTM and activate it with the 'E' license when we can buy it in october?

 

[akramh]

I would buy the E edition but I think it's not available in my region I wish all versions of Windows 7 didn't include IE... that is my dream that one day we will have windows with out a built in IE.. this idea started with windows 95, and caused netscape to loose it's dominance as the top browser back in the day, and eventually made the idea of a Paid browser a thing of the past. I only use IE for windows update, or when a site doesn't work with firefox, but lately it's very rare that a site doesn't work with firefox, there is still a few though , like Arab bank the largest bank in the middle east won't work with firefox or IE 8, My friend has upgraded to IE 8, so I suggested he uninstall it , and when he did IE7 worked fine, offcourse I learned later of the IE7 compatibility feature built into IE8 which could work but I didn't try that so not sure. also maximo doesn't seem to be friendly with firefox, maximo is one of the largest helpdesk and maintenance software, and you can only access the application from an IE browser, if you use firefox the buttons will not work correctly.

 

[BoonC]

I voted "No". After install windows I always use IE to downlaod necessary dirver. (I think I can't buy that edition in my country)

 

[akramh]

how u gonna do tht bud? don't think they'll ship it out of the states. would it not be possible to download the RTM and activate it with the 'E' license when we can buy it in october?

even if they won't officialy ship it to UK, there is many ways to get it. you can send it to the address of a friend of yours who lives in the US, and he can then just send it to you.

I buy stuff from the states all the time, stuff that's not supposed to be shipped out of the states. to do that I use the Shop & Ship service from aramex , which is mailbox service allows you to enjoy all the benefits of shopping online from US or UK websites as if you are actually living there. basically they give you a US or a UK address if you make a $42 deposite with them, and when ordering stuff online like from amazon I use the US address, and they automatically deliver the goods to me, aramix is a company like FedEx but it's headoffice is in the middle east. if I go to their local shop they even have shoping catalogs where you can order all kinds of things from the US.

 

[crazlunatic]

Actually it is likely that MS will bundle an IE cd with Windows 7E. Several windows 7 news sites reported this rumor.

 

[akramh]

Actually it is likely that MS will bundle an IE cd with Windows 7E. Several windows 7 news sites reported this rumor.

or a CD with IE+firefox+chrome+safari... etc

 

[ikilledkenny]

or a CD with IE+firefox+chrome+safari... etc

Not Safari. You forgot about that little thing called, "competition," my friend

 

[Dzomlija]

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)

 

[ikilledkenny]

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)

I spy a genius!

 

[akramh]

Not Safari. You forgot about that little thing called, "competition," my friend

what do you mean? isn't safari free like IE/firefox/chrome?

 

[ikilledkenny]

Yes, but it's made by Apple.

 

[Zidane24]

in the EU there are laws, that must be respected, and there are a lot of the rules that are braked by the people, because a lot of rules do not make sense. And for that the people are not punished, only if there are reclamations, and when there are reclamations the laws must be respected.

SO yes it is the fault from OPERA, and not the EU. And I do not understand why Opera make the reclamation only to Microsoft, if I see the other operating systems:
Mac Os X, has Safari as standard browser
Every Linux Distro (or global every UNIX-Distro) has an Browser installed, and not all the distros let you the choice on the installation.

But to see it from an other side, I like it that Windows 7E do only exist as a full version and not as upgrade, so I can, pre-order at the 15 July 3 Full-Version for the Price that other people must pay from the 22 October, or people in non EU-Lands for the full version.

You right...and I will quote a fellow member petrossa on this

Tall tress recieve the most wind

(good quote by the way petrossa, if he wounds up reading this...)
Microsoft has the biggest wallet in the computing industry let lone the biggest controversial company in the buis....so it makes them an easy person to pick on. Once Microsoft says the hell with the EU than they will move down the list to their next paycheck...Apple

 

[ikilledkenny]

Sometimes I wonder why, as an American citizen, I am a part of this thread...

 

[Zidane24]

Sometimes I wonder why, as an American citizen, I am a part of this thread...

wonder that myself everytime...but I myself like to think of myself as in the world as a whole and become conerned when big topics like this thread starts to become a global issue...

 

[holo88]

Nope.

......is poll meant for only for the 'E' people? ('E' means 'European', right?)

 

[ikilledkenny]

Nope.

......is poll meant for only for the 'E' people? ('E' means 'European', right?)

E means the 5th letter of the alphabet

 

[knuckles84]

I have a question but will not extra open a new thread for it:

When the RTM will be leak it will not be the the E version (I prety sure about that), ok by deleting the ei.cfg I cna install the Normal Home Premium and use ist 120 days, but after that I gor my "Windows 7 Home Premium E" legal serial, do you think that I can activate a normral Home Premium with it???

 

[akramh]

Yes, but it's made by Apple.

do you have something against apple?

I have a question but will not extra open a new thread for it:

When the RTM will be leak it will not be the the E version (I prety sure about that), ok by deleting the ei.cfg I cna install the Normal Home Premium and use ist 120 days, but after that I gor my "Windows 7 Home Premium E" legal serial, do you think that I can activate a normral Home Premium with it???

Don't think it will activate... the keys for Euro Edition will be different than the regular version I would think...

 

[tuckeratlarge]

Personally I will be buying whatever I get offered on July 15th by Amazon.co.uk. If it is the E version then so be it. I don't use IE except when a website, usually an Estate agent, uses that stupid .wmf format for pictures, mainly floorplans, it's pointless. Some websites insist on you using IE for signup purposes, again lame, but I shall install it so I can use it with the IE Tab extension.

I read somewhere that the E version is the full version of 7. For £50, for Home Premium on pre-order, you can't go wrong