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davidnix71:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090611/tc_afp/useuropeitinternetsoftwaremicrosoft

Microsoft is shipping Windows 7 in Europe without IE, but that prompted a new complaint. EU rules say users should have a choice of browsers. Shipping without a browser doesn't provide a choice.

worker201:
Hilarious.  It's hard to download an alternate browser without a browser.  Microsoft's asshattery might single-handedly bring back the browser CD wars.

Lead Head:
Why doesn't the European Union sue Apple for bundling Safari with OSX? Not that I find that a problem at all. I don't get why they make such a big fuss over a bundled browser. Yes, it was a bit extreme with the older versions of windows where you had to rip half the OS apart just to get rid of IE, but still.

worker201:
Apple probably gets away with a lot because they are such a small portion of the market.

davidnix71:
I don't think you actually need Safari for OSX to work. I haven't tried it, but you could probably just delete the app if you didn't want it. OSX help files use the system Finder app, they aren't html or chm files like Windows. I rarely use Safari and after I set Firefox as the default browser, I've never had it start unless I deliberately called it.

I've had multiple broswers running at the same time in OSX before and no problems. Opera, Safari, IE for Mac, Firefox, Shiira, iCab all running at the same time causes no problems. Once, just for sh!ts and giggles, I opened Opera, Firefox and IE at the same time and pointed them to the same page on a pc. After closing the browsers, I couldn't get on the internet at all until I uninstalled Firefox and Opera and restarted.

Software Update is it's own app. I called it and it ran without calling anything else.

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