Microsoft made a basic error in the technique, when they have agreed to provide a “ballot screen” to most European customers that will give Windows users a chance to choice with the 12 most widely-used web browsers. This is yet another example of Microsoft’s control of the media, well after they had broken the law to obtain market share they didn't deserve those ballot screens and will probably not have the desired effect because the most of users turn to other browsers after Google-China hacking and the users who hasn't already turn fall in two kinds:1) who are really happy with their IE brwoser.
2) who are just they want their computers to work or they are don't care about their browser choice, and they are still using IE because they think it work better with Windows because it comes from the same stable.
Choices are going to be random, it will be a good opportunity to Google's Chrome but one thing is for sure that IE will be more closely chased by Firefox in the browser market share race. Now, millions of people who didn't realise that there were alternatives will be shown the way by this announcement.
May be this move was forced by the EU, where surveys show Firefox is already used by a majority of users around the world and IE is much less popular than it. "Well done Microsoft. It looks like a good solution to the issue"
Finally, Is there any major Microsoft product that does not suffer from “criticalflaws”??
