No IE In Windows 7?!?! - Seph will be happy

if there are no browser pre-installed on windows 7, how do we download firefox?

Coming from someone who never uses IE ever, this is really god damn stupid. The "European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour" sucks major penis.

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that said, they're the only people that dares tell microsoft what to do.

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Loonyliondos ftp or wget.

I agree with Seph, success isn't allowed in Europe.I think the No-IE will simply be what we now see in the Windows 7 RC. Just an option you can turn off somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if you could turn IE back on in the register of the European Windows 7.However, the Dutch just got 550 million from fines carried out by the EU in the past years. I bet some of the IE money was included in that.

Loonylion · #23that said, they're the only people that dares tell microsoft what to do.

Except that Microsoft is getting pressure from various governments already, including some US bureaucracies that get upset with their "Intel bias". This isn't being brave, this is being bossy, and it's essentially theft.

Loonylion · #23that said, they're the only people that dares tell microsoft what to do.

QFT.Seriously, people. They tried this in America around 2000. Bundling an internet browser integrated INTO an operating system is (I believe) against some sort of anti-competition law or something. But when the Justice Department changed hands, out go the court proceedings.

branrafActually i have to agree there. Isn't IE built into Windows instead of just being an extension or whatever it's called. So removing it, i believe will cause a bit of a problem "/

They might leave in the core components of IE but just take out the exe or something like that... idk, it's an idea... don't bash it

nomercy · #25I agree with Seph, success isn't allowed in Europe.I think the No-IE will simply be what we now see in the Windows 7 RC. Just an option you can turn off somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if you could turn IE back on in the register of the European Windows 7.

This has nothing to do with success. It has to do with being anti-competitive. Making it almost impossible for any other company to introduce or sell a product. In the USA, it is okay to have a company do everything to make their product incompatible with any other product and prevent competition. Not so in the EU.Microsoft has already been found guilty of anticompetitive behaviours in the past and this is just another case of being anticompetitive. Once a criminal, always a criminal.The problem in the USA is the government official are easily swayed by the big political donations to their parties to seriously look at the business practices of these monopolistic businesses.I would like to see computers come without any OS by default and if you want one from the store, you pay to get it installed.

I see no reason why it's anti-competitive for them to include IE, I installed Firefox because I needed it, if people need something more than IE they will download it.No one can claim that having IE installed prevents users from installing another browser, rather most people don't bother with it because they don't need it.So this is essentially like saying a fast food place cannot service pizza because then all the good restaurants can't sell their pizzas since everyone just buys from the fast food place because it's easier. It makes absolutely no sense at all.

Is this just a European thing, or does this include every other continent?

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QFT.

timmy1991 · #31Is this just a European thing, or does this include every other continent?

They say Europe several hundred times in the article. If it were worldwide, they wouldn't say Europe several hundred times.

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Well, I was just making sure