On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/6/12 Sean Miller<s...@seanmiller.net>: >> "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 wars. >> > > As far as I understand it, the vast majority of people obtain windows > as a pre-installation on a new computer. Most don't install it > themselves (although they may re-install it when it goes sour some > time later). From what I've read OEMs will be able to select the > browser on behalf of the user and pre-install it for them > > Net result, users get a machine with IE8 pre-installed. > > Cheers, > Al. >
That seems to be what I have read too. Of course an OS with no browser would make it very hard for a nontechy user to actually go and get one anyway. Open a command window, Use FTP? Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
