New Windows Update - Browser Choice!

Bear in mind that over 10% of people still use internet exploder v6

In other words: a substantial proportion of the zombie-pcs host to bot-nets.

For fear of losing market share, Microsoft have so far only tried to move people to IE 7 or 8. It's ridiculous they've this irresponsible till now.

Most of which will be businesses who have legacy activeX controls and therefore made a conscious decision not to upgrade. They are also most likely heavily locked down.

Your assumption is unfounded.
 
Got to be honest, i just don't bother with the Microsoft updates. I let it tell me there are new ones available but i never update them.
 
I got this today with Win7 but not XP... I was already using Chrome portable and it still made me choose.

Can you uninstall IE8 under Win7?

i'm guessing the portable version won't have registered itself as the default browser so that's why you were prompted.

anybody running an alternate browser set as the default won't be bothered by this.
 
Bear in mind that over 10% of people still use internet exploder v6

In other words: a substantial proportion of the zombie-pcs host to bot-nets.

For fear of losing market share, Microsoft have so far only tried to move people to IE 7 or 8. It's ridiculous they've this irresponsible till now.

Plus you have loads of home users who simply do not use windows update, because they don't care.

If MS actively forced an update, people would be up in arms about it
 
OSX ships with Safari, how is that any different? EU can die in the face.
Because OSX doesn't have the 90% market share Windows has. It's the same with all these anti-competitive rulings, for a company to abuse their position they have to have a position to abuse.
 
I'm pretty indifferent about the browser ballot, as long as it doesn't cause me any huge amounts of work I don't really care. However for those who thought the EU were being picky, check out this guy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8545237.stm

When the browser choice page popped-up for web designer Richard Quick, he decided to try out some of the lesser known programs on offer.

While installing and using them he noticed that many were based around a core technology, known as a rendering engine, built and maintained by Microsoft. The firm's Internet Explorer (IE) uses the Trident engine.

"If you choose IE you will get pages rendered the IE way," he said. "But if you choose these browsers you will get the pages rendered the IE way too."

Mr Quick said he had sent a complaint about the choices to the European Commission.

A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment on Mr Quick's findings but directed the BBC towards public documents which set out how the choice of browsers was made.
 
They should have just stuck with the top five. Offering inexperienced people browsers that nobody's heard of, with no market share and possibly no support/security updates is just stupid.
 
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