Two and a half years ago, Europe's Competition Commission held Microsoft's monopolistic feet to the fire, forcing the company to offer its European Internet Explorer users the choice of using a non-IE browser.
As it turns out, some 28 million PCs were not offered any choice at all. Whoops.
Microsoft has confessed to an engineering error that kept Windows 7 users oblivious to there being any option other than Internet Explorer.
After users complained that they weren't getting prompted to pick from IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox as Microsoft had promised, the European Commission on Tuesday reopened its investigation into antitrust behaviors around browser bundling in Windows.
Microsoft was supposed to offer the browser-option screen when it issued the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 update at the beginning of 2011.
It reportedly did not, the European Commission said in a statement.
Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/18/microsoft-browser-choices/
