Online Marketing Blog» Online Marketing Blog – The Digital Consultant – Brighton UK http://www.thedigitalconsultant.co.uk/blog Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:19:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Microsoft will not offer cheaper upgrades on Windows 7 to the EU http://www.thedigitalconsultant.co.uk/blog/2009/06/26/microsoft-will-not-offer-cheaper-upgrades-on-windows-7-to-the-eu/ http://www.thedigitalconsultant.co.uk/blog/2009/06/26/microsoft-will-not-offer-cheaper-upgrades-on-windows-7-to-the-eu/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:18:05 +0000 Jeremy http://www.thedigitalconsultant.co.uk/blog/?p=196 We don’t usually post tech based stories related to computer software or hardware. But it has come to our attention from the people at Silicon News that Microsoft will not offer cheaper upgrades to the European market for their new operating system, Windows 7. This is due to the recent anti-trust laws that were passed in the EU prevent Microsoft from packaging Internet Explorer (worst Internet browser ever created) with their operating systems. Given how terrible Internet Explorer is at, well, everything, this can only be a good thing.

Microsoft give their reasons for doing so, but it seems as a low swipe at the EU. You can read the full story here.

Personally, I am a Windows user, this is another thing that has made me seriously consider purchasing a mac.

And our recommendation, if you are reading this on Internet Explorer, is to download a proper Internet browser.

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