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

[JMH]

Who would have ever thought that browser wars could ever spawn browser choice? At the start of March 2010, Microsoft began rolling out the Browser Choice screen via Windows Updates to all Windows users in Europe who have Internet Explorer set as their default browser. The update is automatically delivered to Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP users in the European Economic Area. However, Europeans that have selected a non-IE browser as the default will get no piece of the European Commission’s “choice pie,” as, obviously, they are saturated with choice.

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The Anti-IE: Firefox 3.6, Opera 10.50, Chrome 4.0, Safari 4 - From browser wars to browser choice - Softpedia

 

[smsff7]

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

 

[Staple Head]

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.....................:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

 

[severedsolo]

i dont see why MS have to only offer it to people running IE, surely in the interests of fairness it should be offered to all users regardless of browser?

 

[Tiffer]

Well I don't know what all the fuss is about! I am and always have been a happy Internet Explorer user, never had any problems or security issues with it personally and yes I have tried Firefox and the like, just never got on with them. I chose to not even bother downloading the Browser choice update and have hidden it from future updates. Surely if it was that necessary to appease the EU commission it would have been made a mandatory update?

 

[pebbly]

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

 

[z3r010]

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

All it does is take you to this webpage - Information Regarding Web Browsers

 

[arkhi]

i dont see why MS have to only offer it to people running IE, surely in the interests of fairness it should be offered to all users regardless of browser?

In the actual interests of fairness, and intelligence, it shouldn't even be offered at all.

 

[Lee]

Shoot, my iMac didn't offer anything but "Safari," and being that I'm little slow at times it took all of 30 seconds to figure out that it wasn't fair. So, being a resourceful fellow even if I'm slow in the head, I contacted the EU people and asked for the browser choice to be placed in Snow Leopard 10.6.2, and they said that it would be unfair to do so because all members of the EU Commission use Mac's, and they didn't want to screw up a good thing. . .whatever.

Yes it is stupid, albeit it is now the law of the land in the EU.

 

[severedsolo]

i dont see why MS have to only offer it to people running IE, surely in the interests of fairness it should be offered to all users regardless of browser?

In the actual interests of fairness, and intelligence, it shouldn't even be offered at all.

ia gree, but if the EU are forcing it on them, then it should be offered to all users regardless of browser, [sarcasm] what about all those people who have been dileberately mislead and mis informed about using other browsers and didnt know they had an option [/sarcasm]

 

[smsff7]

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.....................:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

They could hack your PC anytime when you run windows update

 

[motc7]

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?

 

[severedsolo]

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

 

[smarteyeball]

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?

Ask it politely to come to you?

 

[motc7]

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?

 

[Klaw117]

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.

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.

 

[Staple Head]

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.

 

[z3r010]

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 - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19494-firefox-3-5-1-download-without-browser.html

 

[pebbly]

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?

i was lucky i dld IE8 on my laptop, copied to a pendrive and installed on pc,
you have internet access when loading a new OS you just do not have a browser

 

[motc7]

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 - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19494-firefox-3-5-1-download-without-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?