Microsoft found itself facing a formal petition from a consortium of smaller Web browsers, who are arguing to the European Commission that Microsoft’s Web browser choice screen for European users of Windows is fundamentally unfair. The Web browser choice screen was designed to sidestep the EC’s antitrust concerns over Microsoft including Internet Explorer with Windows, by offering European users an automatically downloaded window that offers a variety of browsers for downloading. The smaller browsers want layout changes to the screen that they say would give them a better chance to be considered by users.
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Microsoft faces a new issue in its long-running dispute with the European
Commission over the bundling of Internet Explorer 8 in copies of Windows.
Although Microsoft introduced a quot;Web browser choice screen quot; March
1 that was supposed to avert those bundling concerns by presenting Euro…