Dave Heiner, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft has posted a message on Windows 7 and Browser Choice in Europe.
I have a feeling that this is going to go over like a lead balloon at the EU Competition Bureau.
It looks great the way he talks about it, but what he’s actually saying is:
1) We won’t install other browsers on Windows.
2) We will include IE
3) Rather than doing what you asked (the Competition Bureau) what we are going to do is to make the user who buys the computer start up Internet Exploder. When they start up Internet Exploder, we will redirect them to a page that we designed, that will mention other browsers, and we’ll design it so that they will just use Internet Exploder because it’s too much work to install anything else. Oh, and we are going to change the release version of Windows so that Firefox, Chrome, and Opera will run like molasses in January.
Yeah, I’m cynical.