Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- The newest Windows 10 test build, 17623, includes a change via which links in Windows Mail open in Edge, regardless of a user's default
browser choice. Let the complaints begin!
This may be a problem that even Clippy the Office Assistant can't help: Microsoft is being sued by a shareholder for failing to implement a "
browser choice screen" into Windows as required by European Union regulators.
The software giantwas hit with the fineby the European Commission for failing to offer a
browser choice page for 14 months following its upgrade to Windows 7 in early 2011.
| BRUSSELS, March 6 (KUNA) -- The European Commission announced today that it has imposed a 561 million euro fine on Microsoft for failing to comply with its commitments to offer users a
browser choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred web browser.
Microsoft claimed in July 2012 that it only learned that month that the
browser choice software was missing from 10 percent of the computers intended to receive it, around 28 million.
In 2009, in order to resolve other competition concerns, Microsoft undertook to offer users a
browser choice screen allowing them to download a browser other than Explorer.
The Redmond-based firm made amends shortly after the announcement, arguing good faith and a "technical error detected recently" (early July): the programme for the display of the
browser choice screen was not updated.
In a statement, Microsoft conceded it had "fallen short" of its responsibility, while acknowledging that it was required to provide the
browser choice screen, or BCS.
supposed to provide a
browser choice screen in versions of Windows shipped in
The European Commission said users in the 27-country European Union were not offered the
browser choice from February 2011 until now -- a statement confirmed by Microsoft.
Opera led the battle in Brussels against Microsoft bundling its Windows software and Internet Explorer, which eventually saw Microsoft sending a
browser choice screen to some 200 million computers in Europe.
Other developments with the potential to upset the applecart are the approval of the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, the appeal for net neutrality and Microsoft Windows' extension of its web
browser choice beyond Internet Explorer, starting next month.
