Should microsoft be allowed to bundle IE with Windows?

[jovocop]

I ticked "Don't Care".. I don't really care because I use Mozilla Firefox. Eventhough they bundle it Windows, why should we care. Almost all of us use Firefox. If it was removed, what will change? NOTHING.... I will just ignore it.

I got a question to all Windows 7 users.
Which of you guys take the trouble to remove IE from Win7?

I do. I remove IE, WMC, WMP, Gadgets and more. If I don't plan on using those applications, there's no need for them to load up services and take away some system resources. IMO

[rosco385]

I'm not even sure Linux has a market share advantage in the Ubuntu offices.

LMAO!!

[Gary]

Like I said this only affects The EU where the majority of people use Linux anyway.

What are you talking about??

In may of 2009, Linux had a market share of 0.99% to Window's 87.75%. I'm not even sure Linux has a market share advantage in the Ubuntu offices.

I am talking in The EU only. If you do not believe me contact Bruno. IMHO he is the world's authority on Linux.

http://brunolinux.com/

[Gary]

If this nonsense doesn't stop, Windows will be nothing more than an improved GUI for dos. IMHO

In case you are not aware Dos has not been included with any release of Windows in years. Windows no longer rides on top of it. The only thing that now exits is a small virtual dos so that a command line can be used.

[Browni]

Like I said this only affects The EU where the majority of people use Linux anyway.

You cannot be serious coming out with a comment like that.

[jovocop]

I am talking in The EU only. If you do not believe me contact Bruno. IMHO he is the world's authority on Linux.

http://brunolinux.com/

Is EU a small country that includes only 7 people, which are made up of Bruno and his family???

To me, EU means European Union, and includes a vast territory and millions of people. Where millions of people are involved, Windows will be the main OS used by those millions.

Personally, if you put all your faith in a guy named Bruno, you're just looking to be deceived. Linux may be more popular in the EU than it is in North America, but at the end of the day, Windows Rulez them All.

[Gary]

I am talking in The EU only. If you do not believe me contact Bruno. IMHO he is the world's authority on Linux.

http://brunolinux.com/

Is EU a small country that includes only 7 people, which are made up of Bruno and his family???

To me, EU means European Union, and includes a vast territory and millions of people. Where millions of people are involved, Windows will be the main OS used by those millions.

Personally, if you put all your faith in a guy named Bruno, you're just looking to be deceived. Linux may be more popular in the EU than it is in North America, but at the end of the day, Windows Rulez them All.

Bruno teaches Linux at a university. Linux at least comes with more than one browser. Linux offers you a choice from the get go. The EU brought this on themselves they will have to live with it.

http://counter.li.org/reports/place.php

[OzzYGuY]

Microsoft should be allowed to incorporate IE into any build of windows that THEY create.
Every OS should have a browser.
I dunno how people would go about downloading one, when they dont have one to start with.
If they wanted to be fair, they could include others as well, ie FF,Opera,Chrome etc and let users choose which one they wanted whilst the installation of windows was underway.
But, i dont see why they should include someone elses software, in an OS they created themselves from scratch.
If Mozilla , or Opera or any of the other Browser manufacturers dont like the idea of IE being bundled with Windows, why dont they go and write there own crappy OS to bundle their own browsers with.

My 2 cents.

[jovocop]

Bruno teaches Linux at a university. Linux at least comes with more than one browser. Linux offers you a choice from the get go. The EU brought this on themselves they will have to live with it.

http://counter.li.org/reports/place.php

I'm happy for Bruno, but based on the statistics included at the link above, there's 20630 total linux users in USA. We have more people showing up at our hockey preseason games. I've seen tale-gate parties with more participants. If I was a linux lover and user, I surely wouldn't want those stats to become public.

Than again, distro developers need a reason to continue their quest. I applaud them for the attempt, but they will never be a serious player in the OS scene with such an unfriendly GUI. If they want to be taken seriously, they need to really dumb down the linux distros, so to entice new users to give it a shot.

About a year ago, I decided to really give Linux a shot and installed Ubuntu on my PC, and used it exclusively for 30 days. It took me 2 days to get all my damn drivers installed and another 2 days to find where all my files where hiding. I got the hang of it after a while, but other than browsing the net with Firefox and chatting on Skype or Pidgin, there really wasn't much else to do on that thing. None of my games worked, and I could barely manage to find a way to install a video player that would play all my codecs.

I have nothing against linux, I myself spent a good portion of the day spinning that desktop cube, thinking it was cool...but in the end, I was more than happy to return to Windows (XP at the time) and finally see what a user friendly OS looks like.

I think it's time for linux to rethink their strategy and develop an OS that will be user friendly. All I know for sure if when I read an article stating that linux will overtake Windows in the netbook department within 2 years, I ask myself what that author has been smoking, and if it's available outside Ubuntu offices.

I don't mind a challenge at times, but that challenge should be when I want to do something new and complicated, not installing drivers to hear the sound come out of my computer.

That's the end of it for me, on this topic.

[Gary]

That is why I quit Linux. I don't like taking two hours to figure out how to install an application.