Working to Fulfill our Legal Obligations in Europe for Windows 7
(Microsoft)

Is it “working to fulfill” or “fulfilling”?

Microsoft is attempting to defraud consumers and the industry yet again.

Microsoft is claiming to plan to deliver their OS with IE removed, right? That is what they have said.

But, precisely what is being removed?

Nothing in this announcement from Microsoft suggests that any browser technology is actually being removed save for perhaps an icon or start up script.

In other words, the rape of Microsoft Internet technologies continues unabated.

It is fraud in other words. Lie to the public by claiming to remove IE when in fact no significant IE code is removed.

This blog from Microsoft also lies when it claims to have corrected the illegal conduct as determined by the US Courts.

The US Appellate court decided that commingled code between the OS and IE was illegal. Did Microsoft rewrite that code such that it is no longer commingled? They did not say they no longer commingle code. They may be trying to comply with the terms of the settlement. But, settlements do not make law. US Appellate courts make the law. And the appellate courts decided that commingled code was in fact illegal. Microsoft has not complied with the US court decisions. They only lie about it.

Just like they are lying now. They have no intention of not forcing all consumers to buy Microsoft Internet related technologies. They may not include an icon and a start up script. But, you can bet your last dollar they will all but force all OEMs to put back that icon and start up script.

For Microsoft it is essential that all consumers be screwed with Microsoft Internet related technologies and they will deliberately lie to the public and the authorities to continue to do that.

Removing IE is not a bad solution. Lying about doing so but failing to so act is fraudulent. What the EU should do is require Microsoft to actually remove all IE technology from the OS, drop the retail price by at least $35 and if that technology is ever provided to a customer require that customer to pay $35 extra at the time it is provided.

Microsoft is claiming to remove IE. Prove it.

If IE is in fact removed, then the industry can adjust and alternatives become viable. But, Microsoft has no intention of actually doing that. It only intends to lie about it.

OEMs could provide a browser under certain conditions. One, if it is IE then the retail price must be $35 more. If IE is not included, the OS must be $35 less. That way if an OEM wants to sell the Microsoft OS and some other browser they are free to do so on any terms agreeable to the OEM and distributor of the alternative browser. But, any and all IE technologies must in fact be excluded. Otherwise it is fraud.

That is not what Microsoft is suggesting.

Microsoft is suggesting that all consumers be forced to buy IE technologies but without an icon and startup script. Just read the blog. It says that all other software (including those that rely upon IE technologies) will continue to work. And that means that only the icon and startup script is being removed.

It is simply a rape job by lying about it.