Lobby group asks countries in other continents to get on the court. Now that screen browser options in Windows is ready for deployment to users, will lobby group European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) advocated that the scheme should also be spread to other parts of the world.
Options screen has been in place as a result of a settlement between Microsoft and the EU, but ECIS believe that competition authorities in other parts of the world should give consumers the benefit of a more impartial choice of browser in Windows where Internet Explorer, but no other browsers are included.
The reason that Microsoft has been imposed on this, is the power company through the large spread of Windows to promote other products where the company stands behind. - Web browsers are starting ramps. You can access social networking services, listening to music, watch movies, receive email, read newspapers and magazines, make phone calls and remote work from school or your office, "said Thomas Vinje, legal counsel and talperson for ECIS, in a statement.
- For all these applications to run quickly and with improved features, depends on the progression within browsers. As we know from experience, this is driven forward by the competition that rewards the companies that build the fastest and most versatile web browsers. Vinje said that while the European initiative will help to expedite the competition, the situation will be unchanged in the rest of the world.
- We encourage competition authorities around the world to look closely at what has happened in Europe and to act on behalf of their consumers. Only then will we have a fully competitive market that will form the basis for intense competition to build better browsers, "Vinje said.
He also hopes that the browser option to contribute less use of technologies that are related to one specific browser. Among ECIS 'members will find it is not surprising many of Microsoft's competitors. This includes Adobe, Corel, IBM, Nokia, Opera, Oracle, Real Networks and Red Hat.
