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No IE In Windows 7?!?! - Seph will be happy

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by branraf, Jun 13, 2009.

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  1. bb200

    bb200 Member

    if there are no browser pre-installed on windows 7, how do we download firefox?
     
    bb200, Jun 15, 2009
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  2. Void

    Void Well-Known Member

    Coming from someone who never uses IE ever, this is really god damn stupid. The "European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour" sucks major penis.
     
    Void, Jun 16, 2009
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  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    that said, they're the only people that dares tell microsoft what to do.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 16, 2009
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  4. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    bb:
     
    anandjones, Jun 16, 2009
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  5. nomercy

    nomercy Well-Known Member

    I agree with Seph, success isn't allowed in Europe.

    I think the No-IE will simply be what we now see in the Windows 7 RC. Just an option you can turn off somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if you could turn IE back on in the register of the European Windows 7.

    However, the Dutch just got 550 million from fines carried out by the EU in the past years. I bet some of the IE money was included in that.
     
    nomercy, Jun 17, 2009
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  6. Void

    Void Well-Known Member

    Except that Microsoft is getting pressure from various governments already, including some US bureaucracies that get upset with their "Intel bias". This isn't being brave, this is being bossy, and it's essentially theft.
     
    Void, Jun 17, 2009
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  7. Suiseiseki

    Suiseiseki Well-Known Member

    QFT.

    Seriously, people. They tried this in America around 2000. Bundling an internet browser integrated INTO an operating system is (I believe) against some sort of anti-competition law or something. But when the Justice Department changed hands, out go the court proceedings.
     
    Suiseiseki, Jun 17, 2009
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  8. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    They might leave in the core components of IE but just take out the exe or something like that... idk, it's an idea... don't bash it
     
    timmy1991, Jun 17, 2009
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  9. Sat_Fool

    Sat_Fool Member

    This has nothing to do with success. It has to do with being anti-competitive. Making it almost impossible for any other company to introduce or sell a product. In the USA, it is okay to have a company do everything to make their product incompatible with any other product and prevent competition. Not so in the EU.

    Microsoft has already been found guilty of anticompetitive behaviours in the past and this is just another case of being anticompetitive. Once a criminal, always a criminal.

    The problem in the USA is the government official are easily swayed by the big political donations to their parties to seriously look at the business practices of these monopolistic businesses.

    I would like to see computers come without any OS by default and if you want one from the store, you pay to get it installed.
     
    Sat_Fool, Jun 22, 2009
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  10. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    I see no reason why it's anti-competitive for them to include IE, I installed Firefox because I needed it, if people need something more than IE they will download it.

    No one can claim that having IE installed prevents users from installing another browser, rather most people don't bother with it because they don't need it.

    So this is essentially like saying a fast food place cannot service pizza because then all the good restaurants can't sell their pizzas since everyone just buys from the fast food place because it's easier. It makes absolutely no sense at all.
     
    Seph, Jun 22, 2009
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  11. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    Is this just a European thing, or does this include every other continent?
     
    timmy1991, Jun 22, 2009
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  12. Winterreise

    Winterreise New Member

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    Winterreise, Jun 22, 2009
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  13. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    QFT.
    They say Europe several hundred times in the article. If it were worldwide, they wouldn't say Europe several hundred times.
     
    Born2killx, Jun 22, 2009
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  14. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    Well, I was just making sure
     
    timmy1991, Jun 22, 2009
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