Search results matching tags 'Windows' and 'Neelie Kroes'

RE: Microsoft Whiffs on Browser Choice Screen in Windows 7, Incites European Commission Wrath

mhenriday — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:55:18 GMT

Perhaps the best tool for comparing development of the web-browser market in different regions is the GlobalStats provided by StatCounter. Detailed statistics for Europe during the period 20080701 - 20120719 can be found here (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-daily-20080701-20120719) those for the United States here (http://gs.statcounter.com/?PHPSESSID=2uhekkvpqjb5p3p1n8ii79gb22#browser-US-daily-20080701-20120719). The browser-choice website was created by Microsoft in March 2010 pursuant to the European Commission decision of December 2009 ; Microsoft's official statement regarding the «technical error» which somehow lead to the omission of browser choice software from computers sold at retail with Windows 7 Service Pack 1 installed can be found here (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/Jul12/07-17statement.aspx)....

As to the level of intelligence exhibited by European residents compared to that of their counterparts in the United States, I suggest that that is a question best discussed outside this forum....

Henri

RE: Microsoft Whiffs on Browser Choice Screen in Windows 7, Incites European Commission Wrath

mhenriday — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:37:32 GMT

«European Commission», Fierce Guppy - or is your «error» deliberate ?...

Henri

RE: Microsoft Whiffs on Browser Choice Screen in Windows 7, Incites European Commission Wrath

mhenriday — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:04:09 GMT

I seem to be outvoted here, but I shan't bother repeating my arguments. Instead, allow me to cite Samuel Langhorne Clemens : «It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races»....

Henri

RE: Microsoft Whiffs on Browser Choice Screen in Windows 7, Incites European Commission Wrath

mhenriday — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:49:34 GMT

Unfortunately, even here in enlightened Europe - specifically Sweden - many, parrticularly elder users, still believe that Internet Explorer is «the Internet». It was for that reason that the European Commissioner concerned, Neelie Kroes (aka «Steely Neelie»), who took the matter of promoting competition seriously indeed, saw to it that not only was Microsoft fined for its anti-competitive activities, but also required, as a part of the agreement, to install a browser-choice screen. For some reason, the news that in connexion with the release of Win7 SP1 - a year after Ms Kroes had been assigned a different EC portfolio - a «technical error» occurred which suddenly removed the BCS does not come as a surprise. My hope is that Señor Almunia, who thus far doesn't seem to have quite been able to fill Ms Kroes' shoes, takes this matter as seriously as she would have, and that the sanctions applied to Microsoft will prove sufficient to deter further anti-competitive manoeuvres on its part....

Henri