Matsuda Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Microsoft has apparently learned its lesson and after a long investigation launched by the European Commission and involving Windows 7, Redmond takes the necessary measures to avoid any legal disputes.All copies of Windows 8.1 sold in the European Union come with a browser choice screen that gives users the power to pick a different browser than Internet Explorer.As reported by McAkins Online, this feature is delivered to Windows 8.1 machines via a Windows Update patch and includes popular options such as Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.Windows 8.1 comes with Internet Explorer 11 installed by default, which is actually the only browser that’s also being offered in the Modern UI. The browser choice screen obviously concerns the desktop side of the operating system and is supposed to help Microsoft cope with EU legislation trying to prevent any competition rules infringement.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nastrahl Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 (edited) I always thought ridiculous forcing Microsoft to put a browser choice.They sell theirs OS it's normal that it brings a browser. It's like a system that doesn't even supports networking (for the common users).Forcing Windows Messenger in Windows XP was actually the disastrous one since it wasn't uninstallable (well, like IE, BUT) nor impossible to disable on system boot. It also launched automatically when visiting Hotmail.com or the Windows update site.Because of this, a great piece of software called ICQ was mostly not used anymore in my country even if it was a lot better and advanced, with many interesting feature Windows Messenger, MSN, WLM and Skype still don't have (at least, in the early years of ICQ). All of this for abandoning them in the later years along with a lot of services making them still worse in comparison.You could still choose to not to use IE by downloading an other browser all this time, but Windows Messenger sickness was stick for a long time. Edited October 19, 2013 by Nastrahl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janedoe Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Forcing Windows Messenger in Windows XP was actually the disastrous one since it wasn't uninstallable (well, like IE, BUT) nor impossible to disable on system boot. It also launched automatically when visiting Hotmail.com or the Windows update site. I remember being able to permanently disable Messenger on XP, and I started using the OS practically since the day it was released. On XP Home Messenger's Preferences dialog had a setting to turn off launching on startup, and the plugin for IE could be disabled as well. On XP Pro it was even easier since there was a Group Policy setting for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeMasteR Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Makes sense. :P :lol:BeforeAfter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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