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But the European Commission said it preferred to see consumers offered a choice of browser, “not that Windows would be supplied without a browser at all.”

But the European Commission said it preferred to see consumers offered a choice of browser, “not that Windows would be supplied without a browser at all.”

I’m gonna side with Microsoft on this one. I was never a fan of Microsoft bundling IE with Windows, especially since the suck of IE has only brought pain and misery to my life. But for Europe to tell Microsoft that they need to ship Windows with a competitor’s browser built right in is asinine. Which browser should they ship with? Firefox? Chrome? Opera? All of them?

Of course, if Windows 7 ships without a browser at all, I am curious about how customers will be able to download one.