The European Commission has started a study of problems in the roll-out of the browser choice screen that Microsoft should offer with Windows 7 OS. Microsoft says the problems will resolve and the term to extend.
The European Commission says that Microsoft probably has failed to roll out the browser choice screen with the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. Buyers of the operating system would be after the release of the upgrade package, the window is not more to see if they are Internet Explorer start for the first time. “From February 2011 until today, millions of Windows users in the EU the selection screen is not seen”, according to the European Commission. Microsoft would have confirmed that the screen in this period was to be seen. The EU will investigate whether or not Microsoft this is an agreement with the EU from 2009 to violate.
“As our research shows that the agreement is violated, the Microsoft sanctions tegemoetzien,” says Joaquín Almunia, vice-president of the Commission and responsible for competition. The European Commission will be the case with priority handling.
Microsoft was in 2009 agreed European Windows 7 users until 2014 a window with a choice of different browsers. In march 2010, rolled off the vendor screen to users who have Internet Explorer as the default browser had been set. The European Commission was at that time agreed with this proposal from Microsoft, giving the company a fine of millions of euros empire. Brussels found that Microsoft would end the standaardbundeling of Windows with Internet Explorer, after a complaint from Opera. The Norwegian browsermaker found that it is not market share could build the dominant market position of Internet Explorer. Opera complained after regularly about the implementation of the screen.
Update 13.55: “Due to a technical problem we have the browser choice screen not to pcs that have Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 running can bring,” confirms Microsoft. The company says immediately after the discovery of the steps taken to solve the problem. This would be on 2 July and the day after that, the screen to Windows 7 users distributed. At the end of the week, would each pc that the screen had missed this again. In addition, Microsoft provides on the term for the offering of the option to extend by 15 months.
