scorpiuss - Slashdot User

Comment Re:interesting times (Score 1) 911

by scorpiuss on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @09:37AM (#26968597) Attached to: EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What?

MS's monopoly in the OS market is rapidly crumbling. I suppose that depends on how you define monopoly, but Linux distros are gaining traction.

And MS is not the open holding back support for newer tech. Most people using Windows/IE are non-technical people who just aren't interested in upgrading to the latest tech. Witness how many IE users are still on IE6. Even Microsoft would like them to switch browsers so they can discontinue support for ye olde sixe. But these are not people who are clamoring for the latest and greatest...

Comment US govt. not the only wasteful and stupid one... (Score 1) 911

by scorpiuss on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @01:33AM (#26966079) Attached to: EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What?

nice to see the European government is just as inefficient as the US's. First of all, the Trident engine behind IE is used in a heck of a lot of Windows components and software. Are they going to demand that Trident be replaceable with Gecko or WebKit? Cause otherwise it's still going to be darn important to Windows.

Second of all, this decision is so 2003... Has the EU not noticed the success of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and even Opera hanging around? The browser market is fine. Let Grandma and Great Aunt Sue keep using IE6 and being happy and let the market take care of itself...

EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? 911

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:37AM from the foot-in-the-door dept.

Glyn Moody writes "So the European Commission is going to require Microsoft to offer competitors' browsers with Windows. '...Microsoft will be obliged to design Windows in a way that allows users "to choose which competing web browser(s) instead of, or in addition to, Internet Explorer they want to install and which one they want to have as default..." [Microsoft] now has until mid-March to respond to the Commission, and might also ask for a hearing. Brussels will not adopt a final decision until it has received Microsoft's official reply.' But having the option to install Firefox, say, is useless unless people know what it is. The implication is that we need some kind of campaign to ensure that people understand the choices they will have. How can open source best exploit this latest EU decision?"

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