Office 2007 Standard Key Allowing users to 'vote'

There have been a couple of leaks of late within the ongoing Microsoft antitrust trial in the European Union that could spell bad news for the Softies if they;re true.A few weeks back again,office 2010 serial, the Wall Street Journal noted that the European Commission was leaning toward requiring Microsoft to distribute other vendors; browsers with Windows as 1 piece of the probable treatment inside the situation introduced by Opera Software. Offered that Opera originally sought some kind of distribution offer to “level the playing field” among browser vendors, that kind of requirement wouldn;t be a surprise.But on June 8 Bloomberg noted the EC has distributed a survey to a number of PC makers, asking them about a feasible “ballot screen” that it might require Microsoft to include with Windows. There aren;t a lot of specifics as to what such a screen might look like, but 1 can guess it would supply users, at installation, a choice of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and possibly Safari. It;s also not clear whether the actual browser bits would be on the disk/DVD or users would be required, via a ballot-screen prompt, to download their choice from the Web. (Microsoft isn;t commenting on this alleged treatment, or pretty much anything involving the EC antitrust case, for what it;s worth.)Having just returned from a demo today of Firefox 3.5 — a new interim test build of which is due out this week, with a Release Candidate and then final code expected to follow shortly — I;d say Microsoft could be in some serious trouble if users really are encouraged to choose proactively based on features and functionality,Buy Office Standard 2007, rather than take the easy way and use what;s offered by default. The new Firefox has a number of features, from “tear-off” tabs, to souped-up JavaScript performance, to audio/video integration directly into the browser window, that aren;t in IE. (Granted, IE 8 has several features,Windows 7 Enterprise X64, like granular private-browsing settings, that Mozilla is just getting around to now. But the new capabilities Mozilla is touting for its 3.5 release are the kinds of “demos-well” features that can convince fence-sitting users to jump.)If the EC simply requires PC makers to provide a check-box list of browsers, Microsoft;s known-quantity status might keep some customers from switching to lesser-known competitors. But many less-savvy users don;t know there are browsers other than IE out there. They might be inclined to try a browser from Apple or Google simply because they know Apple makes iPhones and Google delivers Web search. And if there is any type of “trailer” or mini-demo allowed as part of the “balloting” process, via which each browser vendor could submit a two-minute clip of what each browser could do, Microsoft might have some very serious competition on its hands.As I;ve said before,Office 2007 Standard Key, I;m somewhat surprised the EC agreed to pursue Opera;s situation,Windows 7 Enterprise Sale, offered Microsoft has been allowed to claim for years — with next-to-no challenge — that IE is part of Windows. (I say “somewhat” because the EC sems hard-pressed to find any anti-Microsoft situation it doesn;t like.) But the situation is forging ahead, with Microsoft;s proactive move to allow the “removal” of IE from Windows 7 seeming to have done little to blunt the court;s enthusiasm.Instead of debating the usual “the EC is right/the EC is wrong,” I;d like to hear what you think with the achievable “ballot screen” remedy.Up until now, I;ve felt the EC Microsoft browser-bundling situation was more pro-competitor than pro-consumer. But if Microsoft isn;t forced to distribute its competitors; products, and, instead, is required to provide customers a choice of brower at startup, might that option be a boon to customers and not just the competition? Do you think more users would choose non-Microsoft alternatives if supplied a choice at installation? Would this kind of remedy allow the best browser to win?