grelmar - 1:57 pm on Jun 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

No fan of MS, and I just don't use IE (there was a brief period around the turn of the millennium when I did - we all forget that for a short period, IE was arguably the best browser around - and if you argue that the late iterations of Navigator were better, you obviously weren't working in IT at the time and dealing with the constant crashes and bugginess of that bloated POS).

But this is a stupid, over-reaching law. MS should not be forced to cover the distribution costs for their competitors.

They should not be forced to bundle software with their OS when they have no stake in it, and no real code control of it.

Here's a thought:

The EU Parliament has a monopoly on writing up anti-competitive legislation for the EU region as a whole. The UN should step in and force the EU to "bundle" alternate anti-trust bodies, so that member countries can pick and choose which set of anti-trust laws they want to abide by.