EU seeks to ensure Microsoft ballot offers choices
(Reuters)

Oh, bull crap. That is the wrong question to ask.

Do not insult consumers by asking them if the ballot screen works.

Rather you need to ask them “if being forced to buy key applications from Microsoft before you even consider competing products” substitutes for a fair and open marketplace allowing individual consumers to pick and choose the applications they want to use buy, install, maintain and support.

It is rather clear to me that the EU commission has no idea what it is doing. Rather it is assuming that illegal Microsoft practices will in fact continue indefinitely and those practices will continue to restrict the consumer.

Who are these idiots?

Consumers have a right to a fair and open marketplace.

And for the really slow learners, that means consumers can pick and choose the applications they decide they need to buy, install, maintain and support.

It would appear that the EU Commission is working for Microsoft. They clearly do not represent the consumer. They do not understand how products are bought and sold in open and fair markets. And they do not understand that it is the consumer who has the right to decide what they buy, install, maintain and support.

Apparently the EU thinks everything is fine and dandy if all consumers are forced to buy IE, install IE, maintain IE and support IE as long as they can get access to competing products using a non-revenue model. And, then they act like they are concerned about consumers by asking that question.