>> "What IS important is that you now have a choice! Happy?"
You always had a choice. Having IE on a computer did not prevent you from installing another browser.
What IS the problem is the fact that now people have to do all sorts of OTHER stuff to get a browser.
Old way: IE came installed. You could use it as your default browser, or use it to download another browser.
New Way: There is NO browser installed at all. You have to use a 2nd computer, or a flash drive at someone else's house, or go to a store to get a free browser. (?)
Ryan, in Windows 7, typing in a HTML adress in Explorer, opens the web browers with that URL, aka IE or FF, etc. So, no EU has pretty much screwed themselves when it comes to Windows 7. And, honestly, if they do try to force Microsoft to include competitors on THEIR DVDs, which THEY develop, I hope US sues them in the WTO, because this is just getting non-sensical. It's absurd to argue that Microsoft is still abusing their position, when IE has only been losing market share for the past 4 years, or h/e long it has been since the last ruling.
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Disclaimer: Calling Microsoft "M$" automatically makes you a douche bag.
Mentioning that even though no one has referred to Microsoft as "M$" in this post makes you an asshole.
That was supposed to be a reply to HardlyUncleTom. Though I agree that M$ is a douchey thing to say.
UncleTom... it would hardly be a disclaimer if I waited until AFTER people did it to warn them.. Silly man.
(and if you don't think people would have done it and unknowingly made themselves douche bags you are ridiculous! you should be thanking me)
This is another reason why I like Engadget over Crave.
You can type in the word "douche" without it being changed to ******.
Well some would like to call it Microsuck, but with WINdows 7 on its way, it really doesn't suck anymore.
"you can enter a web address in the path field of an Windows Explorer window and download FF"
I think that is using IE architecture. It would most likely not work with a totally stripped out IE version of W7.
>> "What IS important is that you now have a choice! Happy?"
You always had a choice. Having IE on a computer did not prevent you from installing another browser.
What IS the problem is the fact that now people have to do all sorts of OTHER stuff to get a browser.
Old way: IE came installed. You could use it as your default browser, or use it to download another browser.
New Way: There is NO browser installed at all. You have to use a 2nd computer, or a flash drive at someone else's house, or go to a store to get a free browser. (?)
Ryan, in Windows 7, typing in a HTML adress in Explorer, opens the web browers with that URL, aka IE or FF, etc.
So, no EU has pretty much screwed themselves when it comes to Windows 7. And, honestly, if they do try to force Microsoft to include competitors on THEIR DVDs, which THEY develop, I hope US sues them in the WTO, because this is just getting non-sensical. It's absurd to argue that Microsoft is still abusing their position, when IE has only been losing market share for the past 4 years, or h/e long it has been since the last ruling.