No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe

Yeah as someone living in Europe, I'm not really happy about that. Internet Explorer is an excellent tool to download Chrome or Firefox. It's like a bootstrapping browser. Very useful.

<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654414" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654414</a><p>The European Comission: "If the Commission were to find that Microsoft had committed an abuse, the Commission has suggested that consumers should be offered a choice of browser, not that Windows should be supplied without a browser at all."<p>That's quite a different situation than what MS imply with their response.

<i>... by bundling its browser software in with its operating system.</i><p>I still don't understand why this is wrong. It's their os, let them do whatever they want with it. There are other operating systems around. They don't need to use Windows.

How would people install Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari whatever then?<p>It's a shame that they choose to provide no browsers instead of providing a few

Why does it matter which browser has bigger market share as far as antitrust laws go? Nearly all browsers are free and have been for donkeys years, so does it really matter -business wise- if one company has the majority?

Netscape's ftp site was always handy, can't seem to find any ftp sites for any browsers now.