EU will force Windows to pre-Install multiple browsers

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the EU is considering a very effective sanction scheme for the EU's anti-monopoly investigation into Microsoft, change the previously banned Microsoft from bundling IE in Windows to bundling multiple browsers. The decision is expected to be announced within weeks.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the EU is considering a very effective sanction scheme for the EU's anti-monopoly investigation into Microsoft, change the previously banned Microsoft from bundling IE in Windows to bundling multiple browsers. The decision is expected to be announced within weeks.

Last year, Opera filed a lawsuit against the European Commission in the name that Microsoft bound Windows and Internet Explorer for alleged monopoly. In January this year, the European Union officially began to investigate the matter and sent an objection statement to Microsoft, microsoft claims that it has been striving to fully comply with EU regulations, and users in Windows 7 can choose to disable IE8, but Google and Opera believe that this is far from enough.

Microsoft said last week that it would give up the "bundling IE anti-monopoly case" hearing, mainly because of a conflict between the anti-monopoly hearing time and an anti-monopoly meeting held in Zurich, Switzerland, EU officials do not want to delay Microsoft's hearing or Miss Zurich's anti-monopoly conference.

As early as December February, a spokesman for the European Union said that the European Commission may ask Microsoft to allow users to "select a browser other than IE as the default browser ", coupled with strong requirements from third-party browser vendors such as Opera, Mozilla, and Google, pre-installing IE in Windows will become a reality.

Although Microsoft has always defended itself that users can download and install third-party browsers, the EU is more inclined to provide a so-called "selection window" in Windows ", when you use Windows for the first time, you can use the "select Window" to install your favorite default browser. It is reported that such binding requirements will eventually be implemented on PC vendors and become their obligations.

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