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From: y2100s on 21 Mar 2010 14:13 browser choice screen choice screen downloaded but i cannot install it what can i do to resolve this problem
From: G. R. Woodring on 21 Mar 2010 19:08 Date: 3/21/2010 2:13 PM, Author: y2100s Wrote: > browser choice screen choice screen downloaded but i cannot install it what > can i do to resolve this problem You can't get browser choice to install? Break out the Champaign and fireworks, you are the luckiest person in the EU! Everybody else is trying to get *RID* of it. If you want to use a different browser, just download and install one (or more, I have four). Microsoft has never prevented users from installing alternate browsers or making them the default. -- G. R. Woodring
From: Shenan Stanley on 21 Mar 2010 19:23 y2100s Wrote: > browser choice screen choice screen downloaded but i cannot > install it what can i do to resolve this problem G. R. Woodring wrote: > You can't get browser choice to install? Break out the Champaign > and fireworks, you are the luckiest person in the EU! Everybody > else is trying to get *RID* of it. > If you want to use a different browser, just download and install > one (or more, I have four). Microsoft has never prevented users > from installing alternate browsers or making them the default. Wasn't it *asked for* by the EC? http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/02/19/the-browser-choice-screen-for-europe-what-to-expect-when-to-expect-it.aspx I like this part... "... the European Commission and Microsoft arrived at a resolution of a number of long-standing competition law issues. Microsoft made a legally binding commitment that PC manufacturers and users will continue to be able to install any browser on Windows, to make any browser the default browser, and to turn access to Internet Explorer on or off. In addition, Microsoft agreed to use Windows Update to provide a browser choice screen to Windows users in Europe who are running Internet Explorer as their default browser." Essentially - because people could already do all that, just didn't have the annoyance of something actually asking them after days/weeks/months/years of using their own machine, it looks like to me the EC said, "The people we 'serve' cannot/should not have to figure out anything on their own in order to do this - so although you only make and support one of the browsers in question - program something to help the people make this choice with a list of these other browsers." *grin* Talk about getting into every little facet of constituents lives. My 76 year old grandmother installed Firefox with no help from me (noticed it one day) and she never did/never should get one of these notices. The majority of younger users (those who grew up with computers as an everyday thing) are unlikely to have trouble. Google is there to search for alternatives (among other search engines - including BING.) The amount of information out there on how to install a new browser and make it default is quite frankly, staggering. So I ask honestly and perhaps naively... Who is this really for? The EC so they get some concession or the people they 'serve'...? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
From: Ǝиçεl on 21 Mar 2010 19:33 <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/what-is-the-browser-choice-update> "y2100s" wrote: > browser choice screen choice screen downloaded but i cannot install it what > can i do to resolve this problem
From: sharon on 22 Mar 2010 03:38
i can not install new updates for microsoft. i dont know what happened to my windows installer. it is listed in control panel but can not find it. also dont know what safe mode means or how to change it if that is the problem. can somebody please help me thanks s. harperoh i am on a windows xp 2002 "y2100s" wrote: > browser choice screen choice screen downloaded but i cannot install it what > can i do to resolve this problem |