Dave Heiner, vice president and legal counsel for Microsoft, explained in a post published an article, as is the screen through which users can choose the browser you want to install on your PC

The screen will display once Windows 7 is installed on the user’s PC. Will deploy and then display a list of major browsers with a brief description.

As shown by the previous version include Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Fifefox 3, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome, although other browsers may be added to the list.

“Technically, this screen to select the browser is a web page will be updated as new browsers become available,” said the executive.

Importantly, this interface is present only to customers who have installed by default Internet Explorer (IE) and want to migrate to another browser, and will not be available for those PCs whose default browser is Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Opera other.

In this way, Windows users have a variety of options when it comes to navigation software is concerned, and may return to this page at any time to install the latest browsers or learn more about them, because the links available Display choice of browsers connect directly to the appropriate servers to begin downloading the browser in question, “said Heiner.

For all Windows

This page can be integrated into other versions of Windows if it accepts the European Union, such as XP and Vista, giving finally ended the dispute in this field remain the Competition Commission and Microsoft. So if, as happens with Windows 7 as long as you have Internet Explorer installed by default on your computer.

“As you can imagine, it was not easy to accept the idea of Microsoft software to promote competition within a flagship product like Windows, but we believe that this approach is beneficial for all stakeholders: PC manufacturers, developers, and most consumers they wanted to remove IE from Windows, “Heiner said in his post.

“The European Commission said that our proposals so that users can choose web browser, and the obligations that we are willing to take to promote interoperability, the Commission bienvenidas.Esperamos were accepted in full in order to resolve cases by law of competition. We will keep in close contact with the body, and we will implement our proposal as soon as possible once it is officially approved, “the executive in his post.

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