Microsoft is now going to offer five different browsers with Windows 7. Your choices of browsers is going to be Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. This comes after a 2007 complaint from the makers of Opera and a investigation from the European Commission. The European Commission ruled that it was anticompetitive for Microsoft not to offer choices when it came to internet browsers. The current plan is for a window to pop up  during the Windows 7 install and ask you what browser you would like to install. Microsoft has stated that any browser with over 0.5 percent of market share would be added to the list of options with a max of 10 browsers.

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