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Title: Rivals challenge Microsoft browser settlement Post by: Alex on November 07, 2009, 11:15:33 AM Rivals challenge Microsoft browser settlement
Three rivals of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser are seeking last minute changes to a proposal, that would see new users of Windows presented with a ballot screen of the top five browsers. Rivals believe that the current ballot screen proposal still gives Internet Explorer an unfair advantage. After a complaint from the makers of the Opera web browser, the European Commission decided in January that Microsoft's inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows constituted an abuse of their dominant market position. In October, the Redmond-based company proposed a so-called browser "ballot screen", which would display a list of the top five browsers to consumers when they boot a new computer for the first time. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/30Tyn8A4fes/rivals-challenge-microsoft-browser-settlement |