Microsoft will be asked by representatives from seven smaller Web browser makers to alter its Web browser choice screen, which was designed to assuage European antitrust concerns about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows by offering users an automatically downloaded window with several browser options. A report from a March 8 meeting suggests that the European Commission encouraged the smaller browser makers to engage with Microsoft over the issue. While Microsoft has already introduced more randomization into the placement of the larger browsers on the ballot screen, these smaller companies want changes that will give their products a better chance at front-and-center positioning.
– Microsoft faces another request from seven browser companies to alter its
quot;Web browser choice screen quot; for European users of Windows. Originally
introduced on March 1 to sidestep concerns from the European Commission, the
EU’s antitrust regulatory body, about the bundling of Internet Exp…