Microsoft is under the lens of European Union antitrust investigators once again after failing to offer up to 28 million Windows users a “browser choice screen” (BCS) that was required for the company to avoid potentially painful fines.
In Europe, users setting up Windows for the first time should have been greeted with a browser choice screen since 2009. The BCS offers users a choice between Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer browser and competing products, such as Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
The browser options were set up to avoid European charges that Microsoft was leveraging its dominant position in the world of operating systems to gain an unfair advantage in the browser market.…
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