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My interest here isn't in what Microsoft and the EU agree to as an appropriate remedy for Microsoft's market dominance in web browsers or past legal transgressions. My interest is in ensuring an increase in the global competition in operating system platforms. In short, unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there? Why not unbundle the whole of Windows from all OEM PCs shipped in Europe?
The EU regulators have to know that forcing Microsoft to change its practices in order to increase competition in web browsers or media players will mean nothing in the long run, if Microsoft enjoys a near 100% monopoly on pre-installed operating systems on OEM PC hardware. The only thing which brings long-term relief to this ongoing market strangulation by any single vendor, is to make sure that that vendor's "PC bundling air-supply" is switched off.
I would be very interested to see what happens if a URL is put into the location bar in Windows "Explorer".
Although it's possible to "unselect" I.E. in Win2kPro, for example, if you put a URL into the explorer location, it works fine. There's just no I.E. menu item or desktop icon.
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Although it's possible to "unselect" I.E. in Win2kPro, for example, if you put a URL into the explorer location, it works fine. There's just no I.E. menu item or desktop icon.