Jereel Hunter on 12 June 2009
| scottie said: @ jereel - I feel honoured that you chose to actually read my post, because you sure as hell didn't read any others "the EU has been trying since a few months to make MS include a "ballot box" for browsers in Windows (so that a person installing Windows could choose whether to install IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and/or Chrome, choosing one as the default one)." A single extra button click is all this would take. And then it saves you the harddrive space and ram that IE uses. No flash drives. Yay! As for a particular web browser being 'a part of the OS' Sorry, what? If you delete a dll, you computer functions at a lower level to what it did before (if at all). If you delete IE, it functions at a higher level than it did before. You analogy is inapt! |
For the record, I read all the other posts.
As for the ballot box (and I did respond to a similar comment) it's ridiculous to force a OS maker (or any company) to effectively advertise their competitors.
As for it being part of the OS, IE was, previously, PART of the operating system. Explorer and IE were tied in, and not easily seperated. This has, SINCE the anti-trust agreement been changed, however when this original antitrust issue came up, it was the case.
