If MS were to include pre-installed browsers, which ones should be included? Just the “big” ones? Do you know how many browsers exist? A lot more than five. Who can they leave out? No one?

And what about Notepad, MS Paint, Media Player, Paint, Calculator, Windows Explorer, Messenger, etc etc? There are many non-MS alternatives to those apps out there. Should MS be required to bundle all those as well? It’s really not fair for MS to leverage its OS to squeeze into those markets, is it? Hell, might as well include alternate OS’s in there too, right? We want CHOICE, and it’s MS’s job to spoon feed it to us!

The EU accused MS of “unfairly using its operating system monopoly to squeeze into other software markets [the browser market]“. They wanted MS to bundle windows with MORE browsers, which of course would be at best a huge PITA for MS and at worst totally unworkable. So MS decided to sell windows in the EU with NO browser whatsoever, thus making it impossible for the EU to claim that they are using the OS to sneak in their browser. Basically, the EU’s brilliant plan backfired. Have fun with that.

OEMs can still decide to bundle whatever browser they want.

The authorities got their way. How is that not a success for the authorities?

This is a HUGE SUCCESS for the EU! You are just angry that you always get the facts wrong and are ignorant about the reality of the case. You have always been spewing out FUD against the EU for upholding their own laws.

Conclusion: Take That, EU???

What kind of weird, twisted, messed up logic is that? How is it “take that, EU” if the EU got its way exactly?

Geez.