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Microsoft said it had abandoned plans to strip IE from the package to avoid breaching EU competition rules, but would instead present customers with a “ballot” option, allowing them to choose whether to install IE or another browser.
Microsoft said the option had been tentatively welcomed by the European Commission, and received positive feedback from computer makers.
The Brussels-based EU executive, which wields broad anti-trust powers, had called on Microsoft to open Windows to different Internet browsers in order to fend off litigation.
“I’m pleased to report that we will ship the same version of Windows 7 in Europe in October that we will ship in the rest of the world,” Microsoft deputy general counsel Dave Heiner said in a message on the firm’s website.
“We’re now confident that shipping Windows 7 with IE in Europe, as we will in the rest of the world, is the right thing to do for our partners and for our customers.”
Under the new plan, people who buy computers with Windows 7 pre-installed will be presented with the ballot screen when they first connect to the Internet.
It will let new Windows 7 users select and then install Web browsers of their choice to replace IE on their computers, according to Heiner.
Microsoft said it could revert to shipping a Windows 7 E version, without IE included, in the European Union depending on feedback from the European Commission.
“We recognize that there are still several steps ahead in the Commission’s review of our proposal and that we are not done,” Heiner wrote.
“We will fully engage in that process with the hope that our proposal will be accepted.”
The Commission, Europe’s top competition watchdog, opened the new front in its epic anti-trust battle with Microsoft in January.
Microsoft recently declared its next-generation Windows 7 operating system ready for delivery to computer makers.
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