Microsoft and the European Commission may be close to a deal on packaging Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7, with Redmond agreeing to offer users an automatic ballot screen from which they can choose a rival browser. Such an agreement would alleviate the Commissions antitrust concerns, but Google, Opera and Mozilla plan on asking the regulatory body for as-yet-unannounced changes to the agreement.
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Microsoft may not quite be out of the woods yet with regard to its antitrust
dealings with the European Commission, the regulatory body that investigates
possible violations of European Union antitrust rules. Although Redmond and the
regulatory body seem close to a deal over the integration of …