Tinsology

Prior to my absence (which was related to me being deathly ill for a week and then having midterms + projects for the subsequent weeks) I wrote about Microsoft’s latest EU troubles, this time relating to Internet Explorer.

In short the EU doesn’t like the fact that IE is the defualt browser on every installation of Windows. The complaint was initially submitted by Opera Software.

It seems now that the EU has decided that Microsoft must offer some other browsers along side IE as well as offer users a choice of which is to be the default. The decision isn’t final, as MS still has a chance for an appeal.

Personally I’m interested to see how Microsoft reacts to this. Ultimately the decision of which alternative browsers(s) to include may fall to the vendors, which may or may not be a good thing. All of the viable alternatives to IE are open source browsers so this decision as very strong implications or the open source community and the companies backing this software, at least for now. My only fear is that, in the case that the decision of which to incorporate falls to the vendors, is that in a few years time there will be a dozen new proprietary browsers generated by the vendors. There’s something unsettling to me about a Dell browsers pre-installed on thousands of computers.

Of course I’m in the US so I won’t be able to witness the effects of this first-hand.

I’ve been fairly sick for about a week now, at its worst I had a slight fever and a bad cough. I’m recovering now. More content soon to come.

P.S.
I’ve recently discovered Frosted Mini-Wheats, they are delicious.