Windows 7E edition scrapped

[Fisherking]

Microsoft: No browserless Windows 7 after all | Beyond Binary - CNET News

It looks like there won't be a browserless version of Windows 7, after all.
Microsoft said late Friday that it won't ship the Windows 7 "E" version of Windows even though Europe has yet to sign off on its revised plan. The plan calls for the company to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer, but present a ballot screen in which users in Europe can decide whether they want Internet Explorer or another browser.

 

[petrossa]

Microsoft: No browserless Windows 7 after all | Beyond Binary - CNET News

It looks like there won't be a browserless version of Windows 7, after all.
Microsoft said late Friday that it won't ship the Windows 7 "E" version of Windows even though Europe has yet to sign off on its revised plan. The plan calls for the company to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer, but present a ballot screen in which users in Europe can decide whether they want Internet Explorer or another browser.

Call me visionary if you want There's gnashing of teeth and wailing going on right now. The Eu committee is letting MS sweat so they can get the most out if it. But the ballotscreen is fine and i guess that part will okayed once all input from the competitors has been evaluated.

The competition has a valid point when they state that the IE logo is now so firmly imprinted on everybodies mind that it's synonym for Internet and will be a almost subconscious automatic choice.

 

[swarfega]

This is a much better solution, particularly for newbies.

 

[Fisherking]

Yes it is definitely good news for a lot of people.

The only downside is no call outs for a 'broken' o/s....

 

[Orbital Shark]

Great news

Even for non-noobs like myself

 

[petrossa]

Alltogether now:

Well done EU

 

[SquonkSC]

Call me visionary if you want
The competition has a valid point when they state that the IE logo is now so firmly imprinted on everybodies mind that it's synonym for Internet and will be a almost subconscious automatic choice.

I totally disagree with EU policy and whining competition.

Every kid associates a big yellow M to hamburgers and french fries.

So what?

We don't hear any complaint from burger king asking to remove the M, now do we.

I can only commend MS on it's business vision.

On one hand EU want's free market, on the other hand they impose restrictions and sanctions when you do too well compared to others.

Kind of ambivalent if you ask me.

The end user always could and always can install another browser, so what's the big deal?

 

[SquonkSC]

June, 2009 – IE Falls Below 60%, Firefox Surpasses 30% Market Share, Opera, Chrome, Safari

And that's without E versions of anything.

 

[Tews]

I totally disagree with EU policy and whining competition.

Every kid associates a big yellow M to hamburgers and french fries.

So what?

We don't hear any complaint from burger king asking to remove the M, now do we.

I can only commend MS on it's business vision.



On one hand EU want's free market, on the other hand they impose restrictions and sanctions when you do too well compared to others.

Kind of ambivalent if you ask me.

The end user always could and always can install another browser, so what's the big deal?

+1

I think everyone knows what the EU was after, and it wasn't fair trade!! :mad2:

 

[petrossa]

i appreciate your point squonksc. I guess i'll refrain from turning this thread into a EU/MS discussion. I pissed off enough people already

 

[SquonkSC]

i appreciate your point squonksc. I guess i'll refrain from turning this thread into a EU/MS discussion. I pissed off enough people already

don't worry Petrossa,

I'm not pissed of at you.

You are entitled to your own opinion. I respect that.
I proves you're not a parrot. (among other things. lol) (joke)

I just can't stand double standards and EU is full of them.

I live in the EU and for me EU stands for European USSR.

It's becoming more and more a soviet kind of system.

In Brussels they had a 3 week meeting about how many strawberries should go into a jar to be allowed to call it jam.
Regardless of culture, regardless of preferable taste of each country.

I hate it.

Sorry for ranting. I'll shut up now.

 

[petrossa]

In Brussels they had a 3 week meeting about how many strawberries should go into a jar to be allowed to call it jam.
Regardless of culture, regardless of preferable taste of each country.

I hate it.

Sorry for ranting. I'll shut up now.

I emigrated from our country to france. Tnx to the EU i could settle anywhere i wanted.....

 

[new]

I was wondering what this might mean for those who are waiting for full 'E' versions of Windows 7 ordered under the pre-issue offer. However it looks like they will still get full versions according to CNET -

"Those who pre-ordered Windows 7 "E" through a recent discount offer will get the full version, as Microsoft had promised. However, Microsoft plans to now sell Windows 7 upgrades in Europe and also offer a higher-priced full version (for those without an earlier copy of Windows)--similar to what it is doing in the rest of the world".

 

[poin2]

Got to admit the new plan would make a lot more sense.

If they just ship without a browser, they'd have to do the whole plan with charging people to ship IE on disc if they request, or else consumers would have to go track down something on their own. Massive pain and waste.

If they readily just add a screen to Windows 7 as-is, it more easily lets people download another browser if they want. And IE remains removable for those who want.

And if the EU has a fit with it, well, they're stuck farther back than the once upon a time days when the browser battle of IE and Netscape actually seemed to mean something... primarily due to ad revenue from the default browser screen.

 

[SquonkSC]

I emigrated from our country to france. Tnx to the EU i could settle anywhere i wanted.....

I envy you.

I'm not saying there are no upsides to EU, only too few to mention.
(remember the € ? the biggest scam in history cut our salaries in half.)

 

[petrossa]

And if the EU has a fit with it, well, they're stuck farther back than the once upon a time days when

I'm sure at the Eu committee they still have a hangover from the champagne they uncorcked when MS finally agreed to the ballot screen the EU wanted.
But now they want the full monty, so they don't sign off till the other outstanding issues have been adressed. ( interoperability, office suite)

 

[garbanzo]

I was wondering what this might mean for those who are waiting for full 'E' versions of Windows 7 ordered under the pre-issue offer. However it looks like they will still get full versions according to CNET -

"Those who pre-ordered Windows 7 "E" through a recent discount offer will get the full version, as Microsoft had promised. However, Microsoft plans to now sell Windows 7 upgrades in Europe and also offer a higher-priced full version (for those without an earlier copy of Windows)--similar to what it is doing in the rest of the world".

i already wrote in to the UK Microsoft Store asking about this when things were looking bad for the E version. they assured me that i would still get a full version for the price i paid for.

yay for the early birds!

 

[Sammy]

I wonder what else MS has in their bag of tricks regardin Windows 7.

 

[Tews]

I wonder what else MS has in their bag of tricks regardin Windows 7.

Heh heh .. stay tuned!

 

[Antman]

Call me visionary if you want...

You are what Stephen Wright called a "peripheral visionary". You can see into the future, just off to the side.