News - Microsoft's browser ballot nears EU approval

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But will it be enough to please the likes the Mozilla, Opera and Google?

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what's the point in doing it now? it's been out for age's, if they were going to do it, it should of been on release not a few months down the line.
if people wanted to get another browser they would of done it

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Originally Posted by Hexus

Microsoft will then issue the ballot to users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 via a Windows Update, with users who have Internet Explorer set as their default browser being prompted by the ballot to select their browser of choice.

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Really? Microsoft is going to show (in effect) all existing users of IE a page prompting them with an option to install a different browser.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure a huge proportion of those users won't have a clue what a browser is, and will just click the internet logo that they always click on (before forgetting the page ever came up), but still.... that's more of a concession than I thought they were offering. I thought they were only talking about people buying new computers or after a fresh OS install.

They really big up 'Google Chrome: a new web browser for Windows' compared to the other ones :p

I like how this browser ballot is displayed inside Internet Explorer. Way to be fair.