Microsoft to warn users not to install a different browser

[Bjoern Schiessle]

Hi all,

I'm sure some of you remember the anti trust case of the European
Commission against Microsoft in 2009.

The argument back then was: "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to
the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers,
undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."

As a result Microsoft agreed to not bundle the Internet Explorer with
Windows 7 in Europe. Instead users got a "ballot box" to chose a
browser. According to Wikipedia[1] the "ballot box" was removed two
years later with a update, in March 2013 the European Commission
fined Microsoft €561 million.

Now, 9 years later I read "Microsoft to ‘warn’ Windows 10 users
not to install Chrome or Firefox"[2]. So 9 years later the dialog is
back again, but it does the complete opposite this time. It warns user
to install anything else beside Microsoft Edge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17850146/microsoft-windows-10-chrome-firefox-warning

Cheers,
Björn

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Björn Schießle
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Free Software Foundation Europe (https://fsfe.org)
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