Windows 7 to be shipped in Europe sans IE

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  1. Posts : 8,375
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       #80

    While the typical user won't want to be stuck you will have to thank the EU for that one! Despite the popularity of other browsers the average novice user will take one look and gasp right away upon seeing no expected IE in a brand new version of Windows! "wa daa Foobar is this ...?"

    Meanwhile the EU will be all smiles ranting on "we won! we won! " right!
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       #81

    why cant eu has ie integrated? sorry i really don't know...
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       #82

    People, people people. It's so very simple:

    EU is MS's biggest (paying) customer.
    EU makes the law.
    MS tries to play the same game as in the USA, but unfortunately there's way to many senators to be bought, so that game is just stalling the inevitable.

    End result: No matter if it's bad or good for MS or the enduser, the decision made by the EU will be final and binding and MS has to adapt.

    Myself, i don't care. Never have used IE seriously, never will.
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       #83

    It would be interesting to see what Browser the EU IT Dept actually provide on all the PCs and Laptops that the good taxpayers of the member nations pay for.
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       #84

    It most likely won't be Chrome, Opera, and certainly not the one from the orchard variety!
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       #85

    Well, amazingly i must admit, the EU is reasonably knowledgeable in the ICT department. Sofar they made some quite wise decisions ( internet freedom for example, anti-piracy laws), so who knows what they may come up with. It may actually work. Or not.

    What i do understand is, that the committee which regulates these affairs is very irritated by MS's powerplays and are determined to make them toe the line at any cost.
    This is more about who's the boss, and the browser issue is a handy instrument.

    And anyone who has ever tried to talk his way out of a parkingticket should know that fighting against a collossus is just going to get you flattend.

    And as rich as MS may be, as many lawyers they may have, the EU still outguns MS without even spending pocketchange.
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       #86

    Barman58 said:
    It would be interesting to see what Browser the EU IT Dept actually provide on all the PCs and Laptops that the good taxpayers of the member nations pay for.
    They might use the old reliable, and the new, EU BROWSER, SNAIL MAIL.

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       #87

    Or, judging from their IT decisions, something running on Win 98 in a DOS box
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       #88

    Barman58 said:
    Or, judging from their IT decisions, something running on Win 98 in a DOS box
    Which IT decisions do you find to be so bad? They're actively pushing open source, they sank Sarkozy's ridiculous anti-piracy law, they made internet a basic neccesity, unregulated for the most part.
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       #89

    All I know is if MS or anyone else tries to slip something past the EU nose they'll end up facing some character like this...
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