No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe - The EU are idiots

[lick]

Dose the EU know what there talking about or are they just being told what to do by other company's?

[scottish]

I'd go with the latter.

[Recursion]

Please stop with your anti-Mac comments now that you actually own a MacBook... just... please.

It was a bad joke

[Swinkid]

This is where the good old Firefox Portable comes in handy...

You still need to download it..

[Trinity]

Time for me to comment.
When you sign up to a new ISP, they usually send you a disc to install their crappy software and stuff, and it always has a browser on it too (all the ones that I've used have anyway).
So you don't need IE to install another browser.
Tadaaa.

[DaveTaylor]

Has everyone kinda forgot that explorer.exe (windows explorer) can be used as a web browser if no browsers are installed?

[GommeInc]

More reason to abandon the EU

This is pretty stupid. No-one complained about IE other than the chronically brain dead. Why Microsoft? All other companies and gadgets, including the iPhone, ship with stuff people may not necessarily want. It's so random yet stupid :/ Having a shortcut on the desktop to install IE8 is just, well, pointless. The majority are going to install it anyway, because some websites/servers prefer IE8 for special things that Firefox can't process properly.

I was kinda expecting Windows 7 to come with Windows/Microsoft related things, like WLM, WMP, WMC and so on...

[Jordy]

You still need to download it..

Stop fussing about web browsers. There will be ways to get web browsers I assure you, it is not the end of the internet. And Firefox Portable is portable dur, so you put it on a memory stick and could access it that way.

I think this should also mean computers are no longer allowed to ship with a user interface. I mean, any company that put their own user interface on one of their products would surely abusing and taking advantage of the customer? Users should have to install a GUI of their own choice and not have one forced upon them by the big, bad computer companies :rolleyes:.

Yeah I mean you could take this all the way until you get to the stage where users should get a Kernel of their choice lmao. When I buy Windows, I'm paying for the development of Windows Live products, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player so why do I have to download them separately? I'm paying for them so I should get them and Microsoft would give me them but the damn EU is just singling out Microsoft.

Whatever next? Perhaps they should remove Safari off iPhones? It's even less competitive that they don't even let you install other web browsers.

[Wolves]

Has everyone kinda forgot that explorer.exe (windows explorer) can be used as a web browser if no browsers are installed?

True, but most new PC buyers won't know that or how to do it.

[GommeInc]

Stop fussing about web browsers. There will be ways to get web browsers I assure you, it is not the end of the internet. And Firefox Portable is portable dur, so you put it on a memory stick and could access it that way.

Still alot of effort to be honest. I remember seeing an article on Netscape and pictures of Netscape being sold along side Internet Explorer in shops.