Installing a Browser in Windows 7 E

MS offered to bundle other browsers at install but the EU turned it down, GOOD. There is a perfectly good reason why it is a BAD idea to include other peoples browsers with Windows. Worst case scenario is forcing MS to include Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox as well in the installation so you pick at the beginning. That sets a legal precedent so anyone with a bit of freeware can force them to have it included.

Imagine during the install you are asked to select your favourite from 12 calculators, 35 notepads, 88 paint programs, 134 solitaires - where does it end....

Here's a conversation between the EU, MS and the Customer ...


EU - "You will include alternative versions of all this list of stuff in your OS"

MS - "You are having a giggle right? There's over 12,000,000 programs here"

EU - "Yes, each one has a legitimate claim to be included because it's something you do already that someone else also does for free"

MS - "Have you any idea how much that will cost to produce?"

EU - "About a billion dollars in fines unless you shape up sonny!"

MS - "Whatever you say Jack, here's your library of disks"

Customer - "Jeebus H Christ, this new Windows comes on 25 Blu-Ray disks"

MS - "An engineering feat of genius to compress it that small!"

Customer - "After decompressing and installing it's over 2000Gb and my machine chugs like a bitch!"

EU - "Yes, but you have the ultimate choice to pick whatever you want"

Customer - "Can't I choose to have all this crap elsewhere to download?"

EU - "No, you can't, shut up and do as you are told"


As it was, in the actual case of what MS has been forced to do by the EU is equally stupid beyond belief. Here's that conversation again between MS, EU and the Customer.


EU – “We want you to remove IE as it is not fair to other browsers”

MS – “But it’s free, and so are theirs, and anyone who wants them can freely use them without restriction or bias”

EU – “We don’t care and if you don’t comply we will fine you a billion dollars”

MS – “OK then matey, whatever you say, here’s a version with IE taken out”

EU – “Thanks”

Customer – “Hooray, no IE on my system, now I can use whatever browser I want, maybe I’ll try Firefox”

MS – “Good luck with that”

Customer – “Hey, I can’t get to the Firefox homepage, how the hell do I download it?”

MS – “You can’t, the EU made us take IE out, you’ll have to get a hard copy on a flash drive or CD from a friend”

Customer – “I’m a bit of a geek so I don’t have any real friends apart from the ones I have on Facebook, which I’m now unable to also access, so I’m totally isolated”

MS – “There is a solution, you can use Windows Update and install IE, when that works you can go to the Mozilla site and download Firefox”

Customer – “That sucks ass big time, the EU are technological retards”

EU – “Yes it does suck ass and we are technological retards, but we really wanted a billion dollars in fines and they called our bluff”

Th?s w?ll by a p?ece of cake voor the software p?rates, and ?n europe we are fuckt. thanks to ms nell?e sm?t kroes. so what ?s the alternat?fe, you download a ?llegal and complete w?n7

This is another example of the EU making life difficult for the consumer.

for anyone looking for an alternative to downloading a web browser here is a good way to get a browser =]

p.s. using this method set you search for United States (near the search box), will not work for Windows 7 "N" Versions !!!

http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/07/16/downloa...

We can use the ftp link below to get firefox.

ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/win32/en-US/

Thats a anonymous ftp..so no issues..worked like a charm

As I stated earlier you can add IE8 to your shopping cart over at Amazon and also buy it at the Microsoft Windows 7 website. It is not free but can be bought for roughly 4 Euro / Pounds.

i hope the EU does this with apple's snow leopard... No safari preinstalled...

THE EU is full of shit 4 doing this

Why not just ftp into microsofts site and download it from there within windows explorer.

I think there is at least one REALLY good advantage with not having a default browser installed with the OS. Lets imagine that the same thing happens now with windows 7 that happened with XP. That it will have a 7 year life time before the next windows version.
We still have ALOT of people using XP, and a really large portion of that people don't mind upgrading their windows in any way or installing a browser or upgrading their now 9 year old IE that came with XP.
This lazyness has been a real problem, since this 9 year old browser is not only a big security vulnerability but a real holdback for website developers who always have to take this 9 year old browser into consideration when crating a new website.

Also, you can install from microsoft update, run it, search for updates and the list will have IE 8...