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By: Down

Down — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:49:24 +0000

I am not a fan of Internet Explorer at all but it does not seem fair to make Microsoft do this.

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Down — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:49:24 +0000

I am not a fan of Internet Explorer at all but it does not seem fair to make Microsoft do this.

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By: clcrutch

clcrutch — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:07:35 +0000

I think that this is just the government trying to control companies. At least where I come from, the citizens would frown upon the fact that the government has that much control over a private sector company.

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By: andor9x

andor9x — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:39:28 +0000

Felix has made a good point

the cry-babies at Opera made mistake; but some of us expected this type of thing from a browser with just over 2% of web users

I usually use Safari as my default browser only because it's a nice browser in terms of looks; ok it has a few bugs; but so has Firefox; IE & Chrome

the EU should have told Opera to *beep* off; and that business about ordering the BBS (browser ballot screen) was childish at the least

I personally use Safari; IE; Firefox & Chrome. I've tried Opera and it is a piece of *beep*

& the BBS should be pushed through OS/X & Google Chrome OS; considering that they both come with a browser built in

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:38:47 +0000

The EU was hardly trying to “make things fair.” They were (and are) pushing a protectionist agenda to advance a struggling European company. Microsoft also did not “agree” to a ballot – they proposed it. Microsoft is hardly an innocent in all of this but the EU's policies wouldn't last a week if the US government responded to protectionist/nationalist trade policies in technology in the same way they handle the industrial/hard goods trade practices of the Chinese and other Asian countries.

BTW, Apple does get attacked as well, just not in the computer market where they have such a tiny market share. The EU's efforts against Apple have been with the iPod. I think there will also be a push on the iPhone. The fact that they only target US companies in the market sectors in which they are more successful, and where there is an EU agenda to expand the market share of European companies is more than enough demonstration that this is simply old fashioned protectionism cast in the realm of new technology….

Stephen

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By: Felix

Felix — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:18:10 +0000

this is all opera's doing. do they think by complaining to EU, this will increase their market share? I hate the prospect of MS not including any browser – I was planning to avoid EU release of Windows 7. I always choose IE as my default browser soon after installing windows to the moment I finished installing all the programme, upon which I will install firefox and make it my default. because of opera doing this, I loathe that browser now, and the likelyhood of me using their browser is smaller. I also install chrome, and i use it to open my e-mails.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:40:07 +0000

If this is really going to happen then the same thing should be pushed upon Apple.