Microsoft Not Doing Enough to Appease European Regulators

As a result of the latest confrontation with European regulators, Microsoft has decided to sell copies of the upcoming Windows 7 Operating System in Europe without Internet Explorer. It will be the responsibility of the PC maker or end user to choose which browser they wish to use. One reason for the rejection may have been the due to what happened when Microsoft was ordered to sell a version of Windows without Windows Media Player. Microsoft sold the new version at the same price of the full version, which the European commission didn't like. When the ruling was handed down, the commission was thinking more along the lines of installing competing browsers on the Operating System, and give the users the option from there.

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Zertz on June 13, 2009 07:14PM EU will always keep asking for more... Microsoft should sue them for extortion and power abuse. WMP and IE are free, which is why Microsoft didn't decrease the price. Seems fair. reply to this

Waco on June 15, 2009 03:12PM EU needs to pull their heads out of their asses and stop using MS as a way to fill their coffers. reply to this

c@ck gobblers on June 15, 2009 03:30PM bill's spooge is oozing out of every one of your Mongoloid orifices reply to this

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