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redwhiteandblue
06-13-09, 09:30 AM
They've forced Microsoft to un-bundle IE8 from Windows 7 for the EU market:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm


European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves.

How do you do that then, without internet access?

What an utter bunch of cretinous waste of breath retards these people are, and we pay for them. Marvellous.
TGITC
06-13-09, 11:51 AM
http://www.beerandbollocks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23558

:P :P :P
mOBSCENE
06-13-09, 12:09 PM
They've forced Microsoft to un-bundle IE8 from Windows 7 for the EU market:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm



How do you do that then, without internet access?

What an utter bunch of cretinous waste of breath retards these people are, and we pay for them. Marvellous.


They will probably get around it by having a desktop thinggy that says "clicky here to download IE as that's the only way you're going to get on the www thinggy on this machine seeing as you are a clueless new computer owner" - so doing the same job as bundling it in the first place.

I think they should be forced to bundle Firefox in with it :cheer:
mOBSCENE
06-13-09, 12:09 PM
http://www.beerandbollocks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23558

:P :P :P

I think people are just posting these days and not actually reading the board :noway2:
socreative
06-13-09, 12:12 PM
lol .. how would you download it without a browser ?
redwhiteandblue
06-13-09, 12:20 PM
http://www.beerandbollocks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23558

:P :P :P

Ah, the trouble is you included "BBC link" and "DVT" in the title and my brain went into ignore mode.
TGITC
06-13-09, 12:23 PM
Ah, the trouble is you included "BBC link" and "DVT" in the title and my brain went into ignore mode.

:takethat:
mOBSCENE
06-13-09, 12:24 PM
lol .. how would you download it without a browser ?

People only use the http protocol and a browser to download things?
socreative
06-13-09, 12:26 PM
most of them do.
I think Microsoft will place a big button somewhere that'll say "DOWNLOAD IE8"
mOBSCENE
06-13-09, 12:29 PM
They will probably get around it by having a desktop thinggy that says "clicky here to download IE as that's the only way you're going to get on the www thinggy on this machine seeing as you are a clueless new computer owner" - so doing the same job as bundling it in the first place.


I think Microsoft will place a big button somewhere that'll say "DOWNLOAD IE8"

I think people are just posting these days and not actually reading the board :noway2:

QFT :P
socreative
06-13-09, 12:45 PM
hahaha! *oh no! that was said before!!!* :P
mOBSCENE
06-13-09, 12:58 PM
hahaha! *oh no! that was said before!!!* :P

Please read the board rules. Posting a link that has been posted before, or posting something that has been said before, is a "three strikes" bannable offence :) :gaylords:
-HF
06-13-09, 02:24 PM
so you guys really do not know that Windows Explorer does the very same as Internet Explorer? just last night i claimed this would be the case for the average user, but seriously guys, you webmaster folk?

also, most get their OS bundled with the new box, and manufacturers are free to pre-install any browser they wish to, so MS will give them a bonus if it happens to be IE and all is fine again.

also, the EU did not force MS at all, MS chose to handle it that way, all the EU asked was not to tie in IE with the OS so badly that you can hardly remove it, thus giving the customer a free choice.

MS just took the piss (good on them, BTW) just like the easternblockers did at eurovision (the winner being a born russian)