EU may force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with Windows

EU are a bunch of idiots and I am ashamed to be a European in reading the rubbish they dream up... next we will be back on having straight bananas!!!!! (dont laugh its partly true in that they wanted the curve of a banana to be within a specific tollerence..... never inforced)

To be honest then if this is the case then Google being the predomenent search engine should bundle Live, Ask, Yahoo etc search engine options on its search page to give the user the choice! or all OEMs should install all Antivirus applications on a PC to allow the user the choice of what one to run over majority of PCs coming with Norton, the list could go on and on and on, but the EU has a cash cow in Microsoft.

 

Hi Oma

Indeed the EU is for me has not helped the member countries out at all, the old common market was ment to be an easy way for trade to be carried out via Euro countries, this has now ended up in a legal and political minefield of rules and regulations that many are unforcable or while law are ignored by many members.

Their are things afoot for some countries to want to pull out of the Euro currency, plus glad that UK didnt fully go EU, we still have our own £ and veto to many laws.

I totally agree with you in that MSFT have been singled out as a target becasue they likely dont want bad press so pay up, however many other areas and companies need looking at and I believe Google is one, it has search market sown up, now has Office tools, toolbars, graphic/photo apps, messenger/chat, search servers for business, browser etc all of which they can advertise via their popular search engine, thus not giving the user choice?!

My personal feeling and leaving my direct contact with MSFT out of this is a pure business one, in that if a company cannot produce a better product than that available by a market leader then its their fault and they should stop winging like spoilt children, the main moaners have been Google and Sun, both do not have OSes so should produce a better one than Windows! Microsoft should like any other company be allowed to add what they want to their product.. not like BMW have the option for you to pop a Ferrari engine in their 5 series is it.

 

Absolutely right Augie, cannot have one manufacturer singled out and others not, which also means that all server software be it Linux, Windows or Sun need to have all browsers and applications cross installed.

EU Parliament must be short of cash for 2009 with this supposed "credit crunch" rolleyes it really needs to get its *** in gear and deal with illegal immigrants to the health of the community and stop messing with corporate businesses.