EU to implement Microsoft browser ballot in March

Dec 16th 2009
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The European Commission on Wednesday greenlit Microsoft’s updated proposal for a browser ballot within Windows 7. Now referred to as a “choice screen,” the ballot will give EU users what the Commission says is as neutral a choice as possible for their browser. Those first booting a Windows PC will get a neutral window to pick their browser and will see the browsers presented in a random order that gives equal weight to Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari….

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