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European Commission rejects Microsoft's offer of an IE-free version of Windows

The European Commission notes that Microsoft's offer to not include IE in European releases of Windows meant less choice rather than more choice.

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Computing | by C.K. Sample III | Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:15AM | 0 comments

Rejecting yesterday's move by Microsoft to offer the latest version of Windows to the European Union without Microsoft Internet Explorer pre-installed, the European Commission responded noting: "If the Commission were to find that Microsoft had committed an abuse, the Commission has suggested that consumers should be offered a choice of browser, not that Windows should be supplied without a browser at all...Rather than more choice, Microsoft seems to have chosen to provide less."

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