Microsoft plans to release its Web browser choice screen, or browser ballot screen, to Windows users in Europe starting the week of March 1. Offered as an automatic download for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, the screen will present users with a randomized list of popular browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. Microsoft is enacting the ballot screen in order to sidestep antitrust concerns from the European Commission, Europes antitrust regulatory body, over the bundling of Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7.
– Microsoft plans to offer Windows users in Europe a quot;Web
browser choice screen quot; starting the week of March 1, which will present a
randomized list of popular browsers for installation on a user’s PC. Microsoft
originally proposed this quot;choice screen, quot; also known as ballot scree…