How Microsoft sabotages EU's ballot screen

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 10, 2009 @07:10AM

An anonymous reader writes "A lengthy interview on Groklaw discusses EU's case against Microsoft.The case is supported by Opera, Google, and Mozilla, ECIS, and the Free Software Foundation Europe. EU has demanded that users are offered a "ballot screen" to make it easier for users to select other browsers. Microsoft has responded by implementing the ballot screen as a web page inside IE. While this may numinally satisfy EU's demand, it is unlikely to satisfy users who perfer other browsers. In order to select another browser, users must be running IE. Also, users will be shown security warnings when choosing from the ballot. Microsoft's ability to charge patent fees in Europe is also discussed: why are they allowed to charge patent fees where software patents are not recognized?"
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