| loves2splooge said: Wait a sec here. If M$ doesn`t bundle IE with their OS, then how the fuck are you supposed to download Firefox on your computer to install that? You need a pre-installed browser with your OS in order to download stuff from the web! You`d have to download Firefox from another computer, put it on a usb stick, copy it over and then install. What a pain that would be, especially for someone that doesn`t have ready access to two computers (I do but not everyone does). Even though I had Firefox installed on my old desktop, I was too lazy to boot it up and copy it over to a usb stick so I re-downloaded it from my new laptop (using IE. I barely touched IE after that) to get Firefox on my laptop. It`s no wonder the Xbox is losing in Europe no matter what M$ does. Europeans are heavily biased against Microsoft to the point of unfairness (fining them $2.4b US? What`s wrong with this government?) I PREFER using Firefox to IE and I PREFER using VLC to Windows Media Player and you don`t see me whining about this software being bundled with my Windows Vista and 7. In fact I think it`s convenient that IE was pre-installed. Made getting Firefox on each of my computers when I bought them very convenient. |
It isn't going to work that way. The original idea the EU had was this: When you get a new pc you have an option of I believe 7 browsers. You select one and that one is installed on your computer. Off course you can switch later on. If this is what is agreed on now, I honestly don't know.
Personally I think this isn't such a bad idea. There are good reasons for doing this, but I also think that they shouldn't force this just on Microsoft. Let it apply to others too.
P.S. I'm European and I don't have anything against Microsoft, nor do I know anyone who has anything against them.
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