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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Dear EU: Please quit whining about browsers already

The psychopaths! Don't have any other business to run? Why are the neglect the service Microsoft has done to the Computer Industry? As the article mentions, what about Apple? Apple has been denigrating the Microsoft about the security vulnerability etc, have you ever noticed the amount of updates the Apple pumps to their Macs? If the designed their software well, why is that 100's of megabytes of uploads almost every week is pumped out? The most ridiculous operating system is Mac OS. They still can not do things right. Pretty lousy experience using MacOS. Juvenile actually. If I am forced at Gun Point to choose another OS other than MS, I would rather switch to Linux and if I have MacOS as the other option, then I would prefer the Bullet.

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Dear EU: Please quit whining about browsers already

via Download Squad by Lee Mathews on 5/31/09

Filed under: Browsers

There are plenty of things I'd love to quit reading about, and the EU's continued moaning about unfair browser bundling is pretty high on the list.

We get it. You (and a number of competitors) think Microsoft needs to do something more substantial than allow users to uninstall/disable/burn down Internet Explorer. Your latest fabulous idea? A download dashboard, which will present a number of browsers from which the consumer is free to choose. How Utopian!

So I presume this dashboard will include all kinds of browsers, like Maxthon, Flock, Arora, Lunascape, SRWare Iron, Kmeleon, and QTWeb, right? After all, including only big non-IE names like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera isn't really fair to the little guys. There's a big ol' list at Wikipedia if you need to see all the options the dashboard should include.

I'll also assume that this dashboard will be mandatory for all operating systems. Apple and Linux users probably need to be told they have a choice, too.

Oh, and devices like cell phones, PDAs, and MIDs usually only have one browser out-of-the-box, so make sure you put a stop to that as well.

You'll also need to tell Apple that they have to allow non-Webkit browsers on the iPhone and iPod touch, because that's unfair to browsers based on other rendering engines.

Because really, if you're not going to do all those things, it's time to shut up about this issue and quit singling out Microsoft.

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