Aahh After years here comes the 'Car' again !!! LOL Gooooooooooooobi, where are you ?
Hey, I didn't notice that. Nice find
If people can take the pains to see ubuntuguide then they sure can see Windows Market Place!
They are NOT the same. Windows online help center would be the equivalent of ubuntuguide.
Windows Market Place is more like the add/remove programs menu's highly primitive equivalent.
Lets say I haf only 6GB hdd, if I remove IE how much space would I save? 50mb, 100mb??!!! Would that matter??!! Not for me, never for me!
You hit the nail without meaning to. It indeed DOES matter. Several small 50mb fragments saved can mean plenty of space. I know this especially because I struggle trying to fit my 100GB multimedia collection onto my 18GB Partition. I often end up wishing stuff like "if only there was 50 more MB, this whole album could have made it into the HDD".
Netbooks are more like portable entertainment gadgets than ordinary notebooks. The 50MB of Internet Explorer would mean a 96kbps LC-AAC RIP of Death Magnetic to some.
In fact, this applies to any software.
Ekjacktly. Any OS when modular, light and less resource hungry, with an elegent interface, would be highly appealing to end-users.
This is a very valid point which goes against EU. Bundling 3rd party apps with Windows isn't such a good idea imho.
But fact remains - 3rd party apps are ALREADY being bundled. Just check the number of assemblers back in the 2003-2006 era of extreme windows xp popularity. MOST of the OEMs bundle trial versions of Norton or McAfee antiviruses today, while back then, esp in India, it was rare to see a computer without winamp installed by the assembler.
The reason I find the EU ruling amusing is because they say people use whats bundled with the PC, but such people are almost ALWAYS users of OEM desktops or laptops. Its they who use whats bundled with the OS.
Those who legally buy a Retail copy of Windows are either enterprises, who KNOW whats good for them and whats bad, or WELL INFORMED USERS who buy windows because they like what it offers and they also know that they can install another program.
And hence its only the OEMs who create scenarios for AntiTrust violations, but they ALWAYS bundle trialware and tonnes of crap with the OS. So EU courts should ask all europian OEMs to bundle a handful of media players and web browsers instead of going after MS
No second thots on this! MS should haf every right to decide what to bundle and what not to.
I second that. Its unfair to IMPOSE something on MS. Users can have their opinions, but IMPOSING a rule like this is just not right.
@desibond
Dude Opera was a paid browser
What they fear probably is the same scene going in Linux market
Too much open source & you see a hundred of OSes flaunting
BTW Opera holds fastest web page rendering records & is most compatible , less resource taking & smallest packaged web browser with IRC support
Not to mention that as far as I remember many of features Firefox lovers (I 2 like it) enjoy 2day are directly derieved from Opera (atleast the concepts)
What Internet Explorer is Bull$hit, without any user control totally aimed at advertising
Not even till today they have any feature that I can say even matches 1% with other browsers
The bolded part is exactly the reason why Opera is desprate to get at IE.
Already, they have gladly agreed to let several small distros like Vector Linux to bundle it despite the fact that its propiatary.
They are also maintaining a huge linux fanbase.
Because linux encourages choice by nature, and because KDE users don't have native firefox intergration, opera finds linux safer than windows.
Opera is made by a For-Profit Propiatary company. They need market share.
Hence they are firing away anti-trust lawsuits against Microsoft, in whose OS they obviously have a very tiny chance of succeeding.
DO you see Mozilla filing anti-trust lawsuits against MS ? They don't NEED to.
PS:
I realised this a few hours back:
THE main reason I found IE uncomfortable to use is because when only one tab is open it does not have a close button on the tab. And the tab bar is a bit too big and uses a lot of screen space.
