Microsoft agrees to give choice of browsers to Windows 7 users in Europe

Microsoft is willing to give Windows 7 users in Europe a choice of browsers, rather than simply no browser.

The European Commission (EC)announced on its Web site on July 24 that Microsoft has now proposed as part of settlement talks to allow a “ballot screen“ to  be included in Windows 7. Microsoft initially was dead-set against allowing the inclusion of a ballot screen which would prompt users at set-up to select among a number of different browsers, including Internet Explorer (IE) 8, as its legal representatives made clear earlier this year.

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