Today, completely out of step with the times, the EU ruled that Microsoft could not longer bundle Internet Explorer with their Windows operating system without including their competitor's web browsers. It was deemed anti-competitive.You know what is anti-competitive... an omnipotent, monopolistic government body.
Given that IE is total crap, many alternatives have sprouted up, and I do not know anyone reasonably intelligent who uses it. Its the equivalent of our moms and their AOL accounts... anachronistic and obsolescent.
So I say this to Microsoft. Rather than including several different browsers in Windows as the EU has forced you to do... include none at all. Then we will not be able even to use your stupid browser to upload a decent one, and we will be forced to drive to a store and pay for a "CD-ROM" containing a browser. Competition facilitates innovation, but the EU seems intent to live in the past and assume its citizens are all unthinking children.
Kinda a shitty metaphor for their monetary and fiscal policies, come to think of it...
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