Windows 7 will ship with multiple browsers in the European Union distribution.
When Windows 7 installs, users will be able to select from a variety of rival browsers.
Microsoft has been dogged by antitrust issues for years in the EU, largely due to a suit brought by Opera, makers of the Opera browser, a rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
At first it looked like Microsoft would distribute Windows 7 without any browser in the European version. This begged the question: how do you install a browser on an operating system that has no browser, and therefore no way to upload an alternative browser?
I’m not a fan of Internet Explorer. The first thing I do after installing a new operating system is to open Internet Explorer and download FireFox.
The final solution Microsoft has proposed for the EU version of Windows 7 solves this problem by making any browser equally accessible to the average user.
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