Windows 7 no Browser for Europe, no IE
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Oh wait, so how does one go about getting on the net, without a browser to go and download your preferred..browser?
Dear oh Dear. Well done Microsoft. Thanks to your abusive behaviour (NB Netscape) there are going to be plenty of people who buy perhaps their first PC and have no clue how to actually do the whole, internet ‘thing’.
Then again, why should they not ship it with their own browser, IE after all is a Microsoft product and by rights shouldn’t it really come bundled with ’7′, is this the EU just being shirty with them?
Surely a really nice idea for Microsoft in this case, would be for them to add some buttons on the desktop.
Button 1) Internet Explorer Install
Button 2) Firefox Install
Button 3) Flock Install
Button 4) Safari Install
Button 5) Google Chrome Install
Then when the user is ready to get going with the net, they choose one of the installer packages, this would take some courage on Microsoft’s part but surely it shows they value their customer? Maybe even include this stage in the Windows 7 installation process?
Just think, how do you configure your router to even get on the net? The standard home user would use…yes, the browser. So those buttons above, need have installer packages included, inside of the OS, no? Otherwise how can somebody even download them!
If they ship it blank, with no access to some from of browser, I’m worried. It’s going to involve lots of people, lots of USB sticks and other computers, lots of friends and possibly lots of support calls, just to get PCs internet capable!
When we sell a new PC, we usually install FireFox for our customers anyway, this will still be the case as we will never leave our customers in the dark.
I suppose it’s Microsoft’s fault in the first place for annoying the EU, so now it’s time for them to show how they can provide good customer service.
They could do all of the above to value everybody and maybe even earn themselves a modicum of respect. . . however I bet:
They’ll just bundle a CD with IE on it, for us EU peeps. Typical.
Chin-Up, it could be worse, oh wait..could it.