The software giant seeks to prevent a new and fine the European Commission, which accused him of abuse of dominant position to include the Internet Explorer on Windows

Microsoft has proposed to the European Commission to be a solution for users to decide what browsers installed on the new operating system Windows 7. The software giant and tries to prevent a new fine of Brussels, which accused him of abuse of dominant position to include the Internet Explorer on Windows.

The solution proposed by Microsoft is a home screen from which users can easily install, if desired, rival Explorer browsers such as Firefox or Chrome, set one as default, and even disable the Explorer.

With this proposal, including the Windows Internet Explorer 7. At the same time, Microsoft recognizes the principle that users should be able to choose freely their browser and posed method (the home screen) to get it, according to the Community Executive stressed. “The Commission welcomes this proposal and investigate its effectiveness in practice now to ensure that consumers can choose,” explained the executive community in a statement.

Brussels had rejected the earlier proposal to sell a version of Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer 7 without considering that this remedy would be ineffective by failing to ensure more choice for consumers. Brussels preferred operating system includes several browsers. The EU executive also revealed that the Redmond company has sent new proposals to improve the interoperability of Windows with the products of its rivals. Also in this case, Brussels announced that it will investigate the specific effects before reaching a conclusion.

The EU executive sent Microsoft a Statement of Objections on 15 January 2009 with allegations of abuse of dominant position to include in Windows Explorer. Brussels believes that it harms competition among Internet search engines, undermines innovation and reduce choice for consumers, because Windows is present in 95% of computers. The European Commission has already imposed three fines Microsoft amounting to almost 1,700 million euros. The first, in March 2004, worth 497 million euros for abusing its dominant position and the second in July 2006, which amounted to 280.5 million euros for failing to provide sufficient information on interoperabildad .

In February 2008 imposed a new penalty of 899 million euros, the highest in EU history for a single company, charging an excessive price for the information it supplies to rivals so they can make products compatible with your system Windows.

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