My guess is that the argument would be that this move does not make up for the past violations. Sure, they will not be able to stop Windows 7 shipping due to it not having a browser, but they could still attempt to have Microsoft 'pay' for the earlier violations. This could be by fine, or by ordering them to include other browsers as a startup option in current and future OSes. One way or another, it does not end the EU's action.

Microsoft has already stated that they will provide IE free of charge to any manufacturer that wants to pre-install it. If they were try to enter into any 'exclusivity' agreements, or tieing the requirements to other non-MS software, they would be in direct violation of the prior anti-trust judgements. Just not gonna happen. On the other hand, as a manufacturer, I would be a fool not to include it on any computer I sold mass-market, and whether I included any other browser would depend solely on how it would help my computer sales. For special orders it might make sense to include the option, but I really don't see that supporting multiple browsers out of the box would be a make/break decision in the customers mind.

Okay, then to compare apples to apples...Microsoft had one fix for IE in this patch, Apple had 50 for Safari. Again, where is the apple headline?

Article has it wrong though, claims some unknown named 'Philips' invented the glooper. We all know it was Hubert.