So, yesterday I saw screens of Microsoft's browser ballot...

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JerCotter7 said:

Kasz216 said:

JerCotter7 said:
So there was a case because MS gave there IE for free? That is stupid. What about notepad? I can download a better one. What about apple and safari?

Apple Safari isn't considered a monopoly by europe because Macintoshes are unpopular and hardly anybody uses them.

Europe was upset that Microsoft gave away IE for free rather then building a program into windows that also advertised competitors browsers which you can install.

 

Which, even if you do see it as a problem isn't quite the same scale as altering search data.  Search engine nuetrality is really something that should be enforced via law.

I don't see how giving people the choice will change anything. People who don't like IE will continue to not use it and people that rarely use computers will continue to click IE as their browser.

I also don't see altering search data to be that bad. Same kind of thing as IE but I can see why people would get more upset by it. If you had to pay for the search engine then I can see how altering it would be bad. But when it is free to use I don't see what's so bad about it.

You are forgetting that the Internet was the new thing at the time and most consumers were not as Internet savy as they are now. Giving them a free web browser was enough. They would not bother to purchasing/downloading another one. This is why Netscape as a company went under.