Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th Jun 2009 22:03 UTC
In a move to basically outflank the EU antitrust investigation, Microsoft has announced that all version of Windows 7 shipped in Europe will not include Internet Explorer 8 by default. This is reminiscent of the Windows XP N editions, which did not include Windows Media Player, but the difference here is that Microsoft will not ship versions of Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8 in Europe.
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Member since:2005-07-13
"Aha! That is exactly the point where you lost the point.
There is an issue of OEM's, same one as Intel was fined, that MS can push them to do anything with almost infinite leverage."
Actually this is where you lost me. None of the major vendors have that rule in place. It would be deemed as anto competitive and therfore illigal in most countries. The rules inclusive to having an MS OEM licence do not have any clause in them to that effect, i know from first had experience.
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2009-05-19
Aha! That is exactly the point where you lost the point.
There is an issue of OEM's, same one as Intel was fined, that MS can push them to do anything with almost infinite leverage.
Next, the OEM's need not accept returns based on buggy H/W, and installing IE does not need a return to take effect.
Third part, it that this is not EC's initiative, it's MS'es, and as we know when they do the "right thing" they f*ck it up for the rest of us. As described in the reaction of EC to this statement.