Microsoft shows users in the EU browser choice screen more if they set up Windows. Internet Explorer is the default browser of the OS. According to Microsoft, is the term that the EU had expired.
“Microsoft provided the browser choice update in accordance with the decision of the European Commission of december 2009. The obligations of that decision have expired and, therefore, will the browser choice update will no longer be offered to new users,” writes Microsoft to system administrators Windows manage on the basis of a Volume License. The obligation was valid for a period of five years.
The decision is Internet Explorer the default browser of Windows. The European Commission gave Microsoft in december 2009, the obligation to help Windows users by march of 2010, the choice of an alternative browser to offer. The European Commission was of the opinion that Microsoft was the bundling of Internet Explorer with its operating systems guilty to unfair commercial practices. With the screen, Microsoft would be a fine escape, but the Windows-maker was ultimately a fine of millions of euros because the between may 2011 and July 2012, no browser choice screen you showed in Windows 7 SP1.
It is unclear what the effects of the browser choice screen. Opera claimed that a number of months after entering the number of downloads was tripled. Also know especially Google Chrome large market share to win in the last five years, but Google has its browser vigorously promoted and updated, while the popularity and development of Internet Explorer already waning.
