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This might have made some sense back in ~2002 when all other browsers were DOA. Seems almost cruel to watch the EU stomp a dying browser further into the pavement.

Surely it would be more fitting for the EU to look into UEFI or Windows 8 RT which IIRC will not allow other browsers at all.

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I agree this is a less important issue today than some years back. However is it worth noting;

1) MS 'might' get this fine. It is not a done deal so this headline of fining them for billions is a little sensationalist.

2) The fine is not now for anti-competitive behavior, but for breaching their settlement from 3 years ago, a time when MS did dominate, chrome was a distant blip on the radar and the browser landscape was quite different. See 2009: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-200807-201210

or iOS and the app store, which is hundreds of times more anti-competition.

The XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1118

You do know IE is still by far #1 right?

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201207-201209

That turns out not to be the case.

Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Everyone is counting Chrome at 30% or higher. Net Applications is the only one that counts it at under 20% and IE having the most market share. What he hell kind of stats are they taking there? For some reason Ars Technica keeps using theirs stats over others, too, even though I'm sure their own website's stats are a lot more similar to the others than to Net Apps' numbers.

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