Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions 423
A week after Microsoft agreed to include a browser ballot screen in Windows 7 systems sold in Europe, then announced that those systems would initially include no browser at all — specifically, no Internet Explorer — Microsoft has changed its mind again and dropped talk of a European Windows 7 E edition. Here is the official Microsoft blog announcement, which includes a screen shot of the proposed ballot screen. The browsers are listed left-to-right in order of market share, with IE therefore having pride of place. PC Pro notes that, since the ballot screen would not appear if IE were not pre-installed, Microsoft's proposal opens the door for Google to work with PC manufacturers to get Chrome on new machines. Note that the browser ballot screen has not yet been accepted by the EU, though the initial reaction to it was welcoming.
What, no Lynx?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Or Konqueror?
Bah.
Re:Isn't it time to drop the bill gates borg icon? (Score:5, Funny)
I agree - lets change it to a flying chair.
Re:Isn't it time to drop the bill gates borg icon? (Score:5, Funny)
Let's see: Originally they were the implacable, unstoppable all-assimilating hyper-baddies, yet every time they threatened disaster the goodies found a way to defeat them. After a while this got routine and they lost their menace; now, despite their still awesome power, they're somehow boring and irrelevant.
Eh, still seems like a good fit to me.
Re:Isn't it time to drop the bill gates borg icon? (Score:5, Funny)
Resistance is futile...you will be... furnished.
Re:Isn't it time to drop the bill gates borg icon? (Score:5, Funny)
No need, the apple logo has the same effect for me.
Re:Fuck Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Linux is facism
Have you seen some of the kernel devs? They're definitely not facist.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:1, Funny)
Basically, all you fucking freetards and anti-capitalist pro-communistic asswipes need to shut the fuck up and buy our shit. Stop being douches and just use Internet Explorer. I comes with the computer. It explores the internet. What more do you idiots want?
I don't understand people that don't just use what everybody else is using. Do you want to be different? Do you think you are special? You're not. Nobody cares about firecrap or any of your other off brand shit spewed out by you zealots.
Fucking Europe. Always wanting to force people to do what they don't want to do. If people wanted something else, they'd just buy a Macintosh. Yeah, right, ha ha ha. Microsoft technology and know-how is what has driven the computer revolution this far. Why fuck with it? Probably just good old fashioned bigotry and anti-Americanism. You hypocrites make me sick. Pardon me while I vomit.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wait, what? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What is safari doing there? (Score:2, Funny)
Are the checkboxes on your Windows system disabled?
Yes, and I can't turn them back on. Help!!
Re:Wait, what? (Score:2, Funny)
OEMs in Iraq used to sell IEless machines just before the US led invasion. Come to think of it in Afghanistan they used to do so too until the US invaded.
Hmm, I've got to go. MIBs are breaking down the door.