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the most recent twist in its antitrust battle in Europe, it now seems like Microsoft is leaning away from delivering its browser-less model of Windows,microsoft office 2010 pro x86, Windows 7E in anyway. two weeks in the past, Microsoft officials stated the organization was offering in to your European Commission’s proposal that Microsoft provide a “browser ballot” screen to European users, providing them with a choice of browsers. At that time, Microsoft execs said they still planned to go forward with their Windows 7E plan — via which PC makers an retailers would be required to provide a browser-less edition of Windows 7 — at least until the European Commissioners stated they’d accept Microsoft’s model of the ballot-screen proposal. If and when Microsoft got the EC nod, Microsoft would drop Windows 7E and provide resellers with the regular model of Windows 7 that the rest of the world is getting. on July 31, Microsoft switched gears and claimed it had decided against providing PC makers or retailers with the Windows 7E at all. (They did remind folks that if the EC ends up not going with the proposed ballot-screen that Microsoft still plans to foist Windows 7E on PC makers and consumers.) company’s reasons for the newest switch are telling. From an “On the Issues” blog posting (at 8:20 p.m. ET last Friday) from Vice President and Deputy General Counsel David Heiner: reason we decided not to ship Windows 7 E is concerns raised by computer manufacturers and partners. Several worried about the complexity of changing the edition of Windows that we ship in Europe if our ballot screen proposal is ultimately accepted by the Commission and we stop selling Windows 7 E. Computer manufacturers and our partners also warned that introducing Windows 7 E, only to later replace it with a edition of Windows 7 that includes IE, could confuse consumers about what edition of Windows to buy with their PCs. Commission also previously expressed concerns about Windows 7 E. In a statement the day after I outlined our plans for Windows 7 E, the Commission clarified that it believes ‘consumers should be offered a choice of browser,win 7 x86 key, not that Windows should be supplied without a browser whatsoever.’” makers hated Microsoft’s Windows 7E plan. The EC hated it. European consumers,cheap microsoft office 2007, as soon as they found out the new hoops they had to jump through to get on the Internet,discount microsoft office 2007 Enterprise, were going to hate it. there anyone who still doubts that Microsoft’s 7E plan was a stroke of diabolical genius, and designed to force the Commission’s hand — and had nothing to do with Microsoft wanting to do the “right” thing? any case,microsoft office Professional 2007 update key, Microsoft has put the ball back in the EC’s court. It will be interesting to see whether the EC is satisfied with Microsoft’s model of the browser-ballot proposal or requires any modifications to it before the two parties come to some kind of settlement over the Opera-instigated browser-bundling case.