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  • spald_fr: 
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  How does one download the browser if there's no browser in the OS?

  Jun 12 08:44 AM | Link | Reply
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  • Cmon Now: 
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  Ha! Talk about a middle finger to the EU. And just wait for Microsoft to show that consumers "prefer" IE when they have to buy it off the shelves just to get on the internet. Funny how Firefox and Opera aren't on shelves anywhere...

  Jun 12 08:54 AM | Link | Reply
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  • Windsun33: 
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  That is a very good question, and obviously one the idiots at EU never considered. They are so far in the past, hung up on browsers, that they are pretty much irelevant.
  
  
  On Jun 12 08:44 AM spald_fr wrote:
  
  > How does one download the browser if there's no browser in the OS?

  Jun 12 08:56 AM | Link | Reply
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  • mike mohr: 
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  EU got what it deserves. You can download browsers using ftp.

  Jun 12 08:58 AM | Link | Reply
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  mike, of course you can, but the users who prefer IE are also probably the ones who don't know how to use ftp.
  
  Not that I'm a fan of MSFT, but this is a pretty amusing move.

  Jun 12 09:00 AM | Link | Reply
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  • jratl: 
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  Gotta love seeing the benefits of government intervention at work.

  Jun 12 09:05 AM | Link | Reply
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  • Michael D.: 
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  Okay, the OS doesn't ship with an FTP client! LOL! This is a great step backwards.
  
  Only think I can think of is an email-enabled attachment (executable) which would pull a browser onto the desktop. But then maybe the new MS anti-virus will block the attachment. Hee hee.

  Jun 12 09:10 AM | Link | Reply
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  Well, actually you can type "ftp://name.of.website/" in an explorer bar. That's still way beyond most users. It's hard to tell if MS is being serious about this. If they go through with it, it will take Apple nanoseconds to start blasting a billion in ads in Europe touting how their OS is better because it has a browser bundled with it. That's the problem for MS, it doesn't really matter how outrageous and absurd the EU gets, MS pretty much has to roll over or they give up the market.
  
  But I will say that I think it's a very funny move. The whole complaint was that MS was being unfair because it bundled a browser with their OS. So, they offer to stop bundling a browser, thus neatly solving the entire issue from a legal standpoint. Of course the EU will not accept this, because this is really about extorting Microsoft, not "competition", but they are at least forced to show their true faces. The only problem is that the commentators and opinion-makers are just as cynical and hypocritical as the EU, and real people just don't care that much (can you blame them?), so it doesn't really matter.

  Jun 14 11:49 PM | Link | Reply