Windows 7 to be shipped in Europe sans IE

[Pendaws]

Seems strange to me this. Ubuntu comes with FireFox as standard and I don't hear any whines? or is it because MS charges for their OS?

Sounds very much like tall poppy syndrome. MS is a business and needs to make money, they can't give everything away or there would be no MS.

I think these people responsible for all this rubbish should be targeting the people who make pirate copies and sell them for a few dollars. Maybe they would not be so hot on MS if MS dropped the price of it's OS? always about $$$$

 

[joe7dust]

Looks like a browser/toolbar will be the order of the day for manufacturers ...

Nice one here

OK I am officially a geek. (This is one of the funniest pictures I have seen in a long time.) I laughed so hard!

 

[Generator]

We''l end up with just a desktop soon with no Taskbar or Windows Explorer, maybe just a command window.. oh, hold on, there's alternatives for that too...

 

[Orbital Shark]

Sodding EU laws, DAM i wish i lived in Australia or the States

Maybe they'll get rid of explorer too as that's Microsoft's too. I thought Windows 7 was a "Microsoft" operating system, so thay can ship whatever the hell they like with it! LOL

 

[z3r010]

Does anybody know of any EU rulings against Apple? or have they just singled out MS as their cash cow.

 

[Orbital Shark]

That's wouldn't supprise me John. After all Apples are 1 of our 5 a day

 

[z3r010]

That's wouldn't supprise me John. After all Apples are 1 of our 5 a day

Only if they are regulation size and colour and only if the are weighed in metric :mad2:

 

[Legacy Code]

Do we get it cheaper if they are going to leave bits out lol

 

[z3r010]

I'd better stop posting here as I could really rant about the EU.

 

[Generator]

Do we get it cheaper if they are going to leave bits out lol

They will tax us even more (the EU) for man hours just to govern it.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Yeah, me too, i'm gonna go away and install 7229 & hope the EU don't catch up with me :roflmao:

 

[buidanhthuy]

If I don't have IE, how can I download FF ???

 

[bhuulo]

it is sense less to leave out a browser.... Althought the first thing I install is Firefox after the fresh install of windows but still it doesn't make sense...

 

[bhuulo]

If I don't have IE, how can I download FF ???

u need to keep ur FF setup file safely :sarc:

 

[buidanhthuy]

u need to keep ur FF setup file safely :sarc:

Yep, I'll store it in my bank =))

 

[YupYup]

If I don't have IE, how can I download FF ???

This was covered in the article you supposedly read.

 

[Generator]

Just had a thought.. How can they remove 'all' the browser stuff when many help files rely heavily on a browser to even function. for example, '.chm' files are made of compressed html.

So you'll have some poor noobie with Win7 on their brand new PC, who cant open half of their favourite programs help system, nor can they Google it for help!

So much for a backward compatable OS..

 

[Barman58]

There is an existing option to uninstall IE8 in Windows 7, but this option only removes the actual iexplorer.exe program and some related files. The networking core still includes all the functionality required for running Help and windows update etc. I would assume that MS would simply ship with this option switched as it would be a bit late to re-engineer the OS to change the core

 

[Night Hawk]

I'd better stop posting here as I could really rant about the EU.

Be my guest! :roflmao:

I've been hearing about Microsoft and having a monopoly on IE being builtin for so long now it's pathetic! Netscape and others started all this some time back. It would seem the EU simply jumped in on the band wagon for IE and WMP!

 

[win7]

I maybe wrong here but doesn't windows update use IE in some way ? Seems ludicrous to me but then again its the EU :sarc:

It used to before the update app was updated in xp. But 7 does not rely on it, nor vista, nor an up to date xp anymore.