On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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<http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/06/beta-to-rc-changes-turning-windo%0Aws-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. > Yep, it actually seems to be improving Windows by making it more adjustable by the end user. I do wonder if you can now do updates with any browser. They seem to be coding it once for the world so we get the benefits of things done to bring it in in a way to satisfy the EU. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
