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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 ...

Microsoft issued an official blog posting March 2 detailing its engineers thinking process behind the build of Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of its Web browser, and how it chooses to render certain Websites. According to the blog posting, some 19 percent of high-traffic Websites currently render in IE ...

Microsoft began rolling out its Web browser choice screen, which lets European users of Windows 7 choose a browser other than Internet Explorer. Designed to settle the concerns of the European Commission, Europes antitrust regulatory body, the browser ballot screen is being praised by some companies but downplayed ...

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 ...

While Microsoft is touting the fact Internet Explorer 8 is the single most widely used Web browser, the combined percentages of IE 6 and 7 users surpass it. The use of the older browsers means many users aren't taking advantage of the latest browser security protections. - ...

Microsoft will have a new European Commission Competition Commissioner in mid-January 2010, as Neelie Kroes steps down to take another position within the EU law enforcement body. Meanwhile, reports circulating online indicate that Microsoft and the European Commission may conclude a deal over Internet Explorer 8 being bundled with Windows ...

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, ...

Microsoft will continue to support Internet Explorer 6 through April 2014, despite some calls to phase out the 8-year-old browser. Although a significant percentage of people continue to use IE 6, that number has been dropping as more users adopt either Internet Explorer 8 or a rival browser such as ...

Microsoft now plans to issue the same version of Windows 7 in Europe as in the rest of the world, only with a ballot screen that allows users to choose a specific Web browser. European antitrust regulators have threatened to cause trouble for Microsoft if it includes Internet Explorer 8 ...

Microsoft has made changes to the first-run experience in its Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser to allow users to more easily change their default browser selection. Microsoft is defending a lawsuit brought by European Union antitrust regulators at the behest of Norwegian browser competitor Opera Software over the bundling of ...

Windows 7 is an upcoming operating system from Microsoft which should be out on Oct 22, 2009. It will be available in different versions like Home premium, professional, ultimate. Besides these, there will be two special edition of Windows 7, which are: ‘E version’ & ‘N version’ editions. What is E ...