Microsoft creates a browser choice screen for Europeans

Microsoft put a "Browser Choice Screen" in European versions of Windows. Now, I'm not going to sugar coat this at all. Microsoft chickened out from a fight they had in the bag. See there was, and is, a major controversial problem with the browser choice screen that has already started to cause complaints.

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The ballot screen is also giving more obscure browsers a chance for recognition. In addition to displaying icons for the five major browsers, the screen offers up some real estate to Avant Browser, K-Meleon, Flock, Maxthon, Sleipnir, GreenBrowser, and FlashPeak. However, a few of these lesser-known rivals are unhappy over their placement on the screen and have complained to the EC.

Due to the width of the screen, just IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera are visible at first glance. Only after scrolling to the right can people view the other six browsers in the list. If these more obscure companies have a case, Microsoft may need to tweak its ballot a bit further.

 What you're seeing here is Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari cashing in on their own popularity in order to get an unfair advantage over other browsers. It seems rather hypocritical to me that the same people that complained about Internet Explorer having an unfair advantage are perfectly fine with snuffing out the smaller less popular browsers when they can get away with it.

Incase you weren't aware, there is a scroll bar on the browser choice menu that can show you these smaller less popular browsers. They cannot be seen like the "Popular" browsers by default however.

I'm personally lucky enough to live in the USA where we don't have to deal with this political nonsense

Furthermore, am I the only one noticing that once again Apple is strutting around in their good guy outfit? If you ask me, Microsoft should refuse to put Safari on the list until Apple gives a similar browser choice screen with Internet Explorer on the list. After all, shouldn't they, as big company #2, be following the same fairness rules as everyone else? Or will such questions simply be put off until Apple starts to resemble Microsoft?

Somehow I doubt Apple will be questioned about their own practices for a good long time.

I don't know about the readers, but here in the USA quite easy to install your favorite browser and remove Internet Explorer.