incrediBILL - 7:52 pm on Dec 16, 2009 (gmt 0)

The whole thing is patently absurd.

If the other browsers want to be on the OS, they should build their own like Chrome OS.

I never paid for a browser, not once, not ever, but I paid for email software, office software and there used to be choices not just one option.

Where was the EU when MS put free email in the OS when email was a booming paid biz?

Where was the EU when MS shoved MS Office "trial" in the distribution package on the desktop? maybe that's just in the US, where there's real money involved opposed to which FREE browser you get.

Replace the FREE browser, oh my.

Big whoop.

For most consumers the PC is an appliance, like a toaster, and the only option they care about is the color of the box itself.

Most wouldn't know an Opera from a Firefox, they think the browser is "Google".