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For an extension of the European Commission’s remedy for the domination of Microsoft's Browser, Internet Explorer.

Fri, 22/01/2010 - 09:22 — Edouard Barreiro
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The context:

Even if some challengers have taken a significant share of the browser market (primarily Firefox), Microsoft still has a huge advantage. This advantage is due to the bundling of computers and OS.

Indeed as most computers are sold with Windows (close to 100% in France) IE is included by default. To strengthen this power Microsoft implements IE-specific code to be sure that a website optimized for its browser doesn’t work perfectly with other browsers.