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How could Microsoftâs Proposed Browser Ballot be More Effective?
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| Another important factor is how much physical space on
| the ballot each item is designated. The current design
| runs into some problems with designated space per item,
| swayed in favor of IE. For instance, in the current
| design:
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| - The user must double-click on an Internet Explorer
| icon, labeled âInternet Explorerâ, to launch the ballot
| - The ballot appears within Internet Explorer browser
| chrome
| - Internet Explorer is mentioned repeatedly within the
| ballot, Bing is shown as the default search engine, and
| the IE logo appears as a favicon multiple times
|
| The current space allocation for IE is roughly 3.35
| times as much as the other browsers.
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http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/how-could-microsofts-proposed-browser-ballot-be-more-awesome/
Report: Browser makers contest Microsoft browser ballot deal
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| Opera Software, which sparked the investigation into
| Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla
| and Google will each send separate letters to the
| European Commission suggesting changes to the proposal
| put forward by Microsoft last summer, said the
| newspaper.
|
| "We hope the commission is open to fixing the remedy,"
| Hakon Wium Lie, Opera's chief technology officer, told
| the New York Times Wednesday. "It is a once-in-a-
| lifetime opportunity to make sure there is a working
| market for browsers. I don't think we are going to get
| another chance."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/11/05/urnidgns852573C40069388000257665005C1B49.DTL
Related:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
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