> No there is evidence that M$ has been adjusting things in Windows to > allow > it to conform to the EU dictates. I expect that any big EU complaint > will > change Windows for the whole world.
Microsoft created the Windows N version for Europe, Windows without WMP bundled, to comply with the EU's absurd and baseless assertion that WMP was harming the media player market. Few consumers saw any value in it and it didn't sell. In Windows 7, it's reported that MS will allow the "deactivation" of certain applications, including IE, or functionality. It's suspected this is being done to head off the anti-trust pinheads in the EU. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/06/beta-to-rc-changes-turning-windo ws-features-on-or-off.aspx >From a enterprise desktop management standpoint, this is good as it allows more centralized control of the deployed installation of Windows on the floor. If the company management doesn't want staff to have a particular functionality available to them, it eases this role as you can deactivate this function through group policy, rather than having to uninstall or find a workaround way to disable or block functionality. >From a consumer standpoint, it's pointless as you can always d/l a competitive product and use that instead. Mozilla's bleating to the EU about how they have been harmed by IE, as Firefox's share of the browser market has grown from <5% to >20% (and still growing) at the expense of IE over the past 2 years, is curious at best. Dishonest is a better word. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
