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Microsoft fined for not promoting alternate browsers

RJS (undefined) posted this on Wednesday, 6th March 2013, 21:11

Recently, Internet Explorer has been gaining market share, after years of decline. Yes gaining!

So it's good timing that the EU has fined them for not promoting alternatives:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21684329

£484m would be nothing to Microsoft a few years ago, now with declining PC sales and small income from phone/tablet markets, I bet they almost feel it.


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RE: Microsoft fined for not promoting alternate browsers

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 6th March 2013, 21:56

I love the fact they blame it on a technical error.  Surely someone should have noticed in all that time?

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RE: Microsoft fined for not promoting alternate browsers

Faust (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 7th March 2013, 20:41

"I love the fact they blame it on a technical error"

I could hardly believe that too when I read it. I wondered why I wasn`t offered alternatives when I set-up this new laptop (18 months ago). Perhaps the IT guy was out to lunch when he should have done this...lol.
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(For the record I use Google Chrome and I don`t know why this text is not right - might have something to do with the "Sorry, live updates to this thread are unavailable:" message)

Ah...the text is OK when posted - no tools present though.

This item was edited on Thursday, 7th March 2013, 20:43

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