Perhaps a 'please Mr Microsoft man' should have been enough.
If the EU is concerned about people using Internet Explorer, which can be some people's downfall, hence after removing viruses from a friends computer I downloaded him Firefox and told him to never use IE again because it isn't quite up to standards, then they should raise the awareness of alternative browsers.
I can see the EU's concern, they probably don't feel users are safe as they should be when using IE in comparison to alternative browsers, this would probably explain why they're doing it to Microsoft and not Apple, Safari (which I am using to type this message) is much more stable. Lets be honest IE isn't an idiot-proof solution to the internet, a lot of internet users aren't geeks like us and probably don't have a clue about safe browsers.
However, do they
need to force MS into providing alternatives? I'm not entirely against it, I don't think it's right that they should force anything, but I think the better solution is to inform users instead, make it more known that IE isn't the safest browser for the net and that downloading alternatives is easy as ABC in this 'step by step guide'. But then is it worth EU funding?
But as Grandma said, it's only a small issue to be concerned with, and the sam with the EU, they have bigger fish to fry than dealing too much into browsers...or at least I hope.
