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Time and time again the EU has run after Microsoft, hoping to keep them in check and ensure some competition, but sometimes you have to wonder if they are just picking on the big guy. After pressure from the EU, Microsoft has decided to sell Windows 7 without IE, but even that isn’t enough.
Rather than not bundling any web browser, the EU would apparently prefer they gave a choice of several. Which browsers, then, will make the list? And do you really expect Microsoft to bundle Firefox? I’m all in favor of getting people off of IE for the sake of every web developer out there, but this is getting a little extreme.
It looks like the EU might be tightening the leash on Microsoft a little too tightly. You can’t expect no bundling and a web browser included at the same time.
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I always felt that the biggest error Mircosoft ever made was to enter in the browser market anyway. They get into truckload of legal troubles for something that they don’t even sell? IE is not making them any money and it a security nightmare so why bother? Off course a secure OS might really hurt OEM’s.
After all they make so much money packaging all sort of crappy anti virus to secure a platform that should have been secured ten years ago.