{"id":9689,"date":"2009-06-13T08:15:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9689"},"modified":"2009-06-13T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"no-ie-in-european-distribution-of-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9689","title":{"rendered":"No IE In European Distribution Of Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move prompted by the badgering of those unelected, dictator, Eurocrats, Microsoft <a title=\"announced\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2009\/06\/12\/microsoft_windows_7_ie_europe\/\">announced<\/a> a couple of days ago that they will not be including Internet Explorer in the European distributions of Windows 7.\u00a0 OEM\u2019s will be free to include any or no browser they feel like.<\/p>\n<p>To me, this is another case of tax payers money being wasted.\u00a0 The European Union central \u201cgovernment\u201d continues to bloat with the hiring of staff from just a couple of countries (what percentage of their staff are non-native French speakers?) and wastes money and time on something so trivial as web browsers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article877849.ece\" target=\"_blank\">crisp flavours<\/a>, and defining what is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/europe\/01\/16\/chocolate.war\/\" target=\"_blank\">chocolate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, there is <em>nothing<\/em>, to stop anyone from choosing what web browser or media player you want.\u00a0 I doubt the inclusion of IE has impacted the success of Firefox, Safari or Chrome.\u00a0 In fact, they seem to do quite well.<\/p>\n<p>How much of a waste of time is this?\u00a0 How many times have you seen Windows N edition?\u00a0 <a title=\"According\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2009\/06\/12\/microsoft_windows_7_ie_europe\/\">According<\/a> to The Register <em>\u201csales of Windows XP N represented just 0.005 per cent or 1\/20,000th of one per cent of overall XP sales in Europe by April 2006\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 Those were probably installs in Brussels or Paris.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s some thinking that the grey suits in the EU are having a hissy fit because of this announcement.\u00a0 It pre-empts their decision on what they would do to MS.\u00a0 What was MS to do?\u00a0 They will RTM Windows 7 in July and the OEM\u2019s will get immediate access to it to prepare their builds.\u00a0 Are MS and the OEM\u2019s to wait on some civil servants (and we know how hard working and how schedule conscious they are, right?) to make up their minds on something while these businesses lose billions of Euros?\u00a0 That\u2019s pure nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Odds are, IE will be available to customers via Automatic Updates as an optional download if the OEM doesn\u2019t include it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move prompted by the badgering of those unelected, dictator, Eurocrats, Microsoft announced a couple of days ago that they will not be including Internet Explorer in the European distributions of Windows 7.\u00a0 OEM\u2019s will be free to include any or no browser they feel like. To me, this is another case of tax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No IE In European Distribution Of Windows 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}