The European Commission figures over 100 million (doubtlessly utterly confused) European Windows users will be exposed to the browser-bearing Ballot Screen that Microsoft is being made to circulate offering alternatives to Internet Explorer to settle the EC’s latest antitrust action.
And that’s just by mid-May.
The process will be repeated for five years in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein as well as the 27 countries of the European Union. And if the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, which represents Microsoft enemies such as IBM and Oracle, has its way regulators worldwide will push Microsoft into offering the Ballot Screen where they live too.
Microsoft’s IE, Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and Opera will be on the constantly shuffled row followed – scrolling along – by little-known competitors Avant Browser, Flock, Green Browser, K-Meleon, Maxthon, Sleipnir and Slim Browser. See http://www.browserchoice.eu.
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