Liam Wilson wrote:
> David King wrote:
>> That's all the more reason for people to switch to a free alternative
>> like Ubuntu.
>>
>>
>> David King
>>
>>
>>
>> John Matthews wrote:
>>
>>> Yeh, but its costing us, MS are charging the EU almost a 1/3rd more
>>> than elsewhe
That's all the more reason for people to switch to a free alternative
like Ubuntu.
David King
John Matthews wrote:
>>
>>
> Yeh, but its costing us, MS are charging the EU almost a 1/3rd more than
> elsewhere for W7 upgrades. It seems that MS are going to make us pay for
> that.
>
> J
Sean Miller wrote:
> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
> Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip"
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm
>
> That could be quite a
> Personally, I feel sorry for those going to do a fresh install of
> Vista7, because how are you supposed to download a browser without a
> browser?
There are three scenarios I can think of:
- Corporate, who have IT departments who will add a browser in
- OEMs, who customise Windows anyway so
Rob Beard wrote:
> Dave Morley wrote:
>
>> It maybe a none essential upgrade that MS could have. In Vista they do
>> this for driver updates.
>>
>>
> That's true, they seem to bundle other apps in Windows Update on Vista
> and Windows 7 and it doesn't use Internet Explorer at all as fa
There is a detailed report on this thread on computeractive, in their news
section, makes a very interesting read, regards, Michael
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Dean Sas wrote:
From: Dean Sas
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7
To: a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk, "British Ubuntu Talk&qu
Tony Pursell wrote:
> If the EU Competition Commission really had teeth they would make
> MS offer all browsers from a 'Install a browser' link on the desktop.
A link that worked as you mentioned would probably be better be labelled
as "Make the internet work". Is it a good idea to force the use
On 12 Jun 2009 at 18:30, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
> On 12 Jun 2009 at 14:33, Sean Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a
> > cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to
> > somebody else.
> >
> > Perhaps we should campaig
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:20:21 +0100, Harry Rickards
wrote:
> Maybe the OEMs could write a script that lets the user choose which
> browser to install (and use) when powering on the PC for the first time.
>
This of cause, assumes that people want a choice.
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On 12 Jun 2009 at 14:33, Sean Miller wrote:
>
> Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a
> cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to
> somebody else.
>
> Perhaps we should campaign to try to shame OEMs into bundling two or
> three browsers ont
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On 06/12/09 14:33, Sean Miller wrote:
> Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a
> cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to
> somebody else.
>
> Perhaps we should campaign to try to shame OEMs into
Sean Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, doug livesey wrote:
>> Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF.
>
> Even if it didn't.
>
> There are many in the repos.
This is what Windows needs, an easy to use system to install and update
apps loaded on a machine. If there were an
It would be nice to see the OEMs bundling OpenOffice too, instead of
trial versions of Microsoft Office.
Sean
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Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a
cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to
somebody else.
Perhaps we should campaign to try to shame OEMs into bundling two or
three browsers onto their Windows 7 PCs?
Say, Google's Chrome, IE and Firefox
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, doug livesey wrote:
> Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF.
Even if it didn't.
There are many in the repos.
Sean
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Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF.
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I hadn't thought of the "won't have a browser with which to download a
browser" aspect.
If they were sensible and used Ubuntu, of course, they wouldn't need a
browser to download a browser would they!
Sean
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Rob Beard wrote:
> Matthew Wild wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12,
Matthew Wild wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Rob Beard wrote:
>
>> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote:
>>>
>>>
2009/6/12 Sean Miller:
> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
> bro
doug livesey wrote:
> A better model would be to let the customer customise their install.
> So they can see the price rocketing up as they select Windows & IE &
> the like.
> Like the way the Dell customise app works.
True, I bet a lot of people don't consider how much Windows costs, but
then I
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Rob Beard wrote:
> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>> On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/6/12 Sean Miller:
>>>
"European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
Mic
A better model would be to let the customer customise their install.
So they can see the price rocketing up as they select Windows & IE & the
like.
Like the way the Dell customise app works.
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Dave Morley wrote:
> It maybe a none essential upgrade that MS could have. In Vista they do
> this for driver updates.
>
That's true, they seem to bundle other apps in Windows Update on Vista
and Windows 7 and it doesn't use Internet Explorer at all as far as I
can tell. Not to mention in IE
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/12 Sean Miller:
>>
>>> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
>>> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
>>> Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explore
Sean Miller wrote:
> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
> Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip"
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm
>
> That could be quite a
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 12:25 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote:
> > 2009/6/12 Sean Miller:
> >> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
> >> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
> >> Microsoft Windows 7 will shi
On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/6/12 Sean Miller:
>> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
>> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
>> Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip"
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/t
2009/6/12 Sean Miller :
> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
> Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip"
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm
>
> That could be qu
"European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm
That could be quite a turning point in the browser w
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