EU prepares to settle Microsoft browser case

BRUSSELS — European Union regulators said Wednesday they were preparing to settle a long and costly antitrust battle with Microsoft Corp. with a deal to give Windows users a choice of web browsers.

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Microsoft to let users pick browser

BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. will offer computer users a choice of rival Web browsers to ward off new European Union antitrust fines, EU regulators and Microsoft said Friday.

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EU: Microsoft to let users pick browser

BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. will offer computer users a choice of rival Web browsers to ward off new European Union antitrust fines, EU regulators and Microsoft said Friday.

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EU: Microsoft trying to settle browser case

BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. will offer computer users a choice of Web browsers to ward off new European Union antitrust fines, EU regulators said Friday.

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With IT giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo into cloud computing, Opera seems to follow the suite, but with a different approach. Opera Software ASA on Tuesday launched a new technology that would allow the Web browser to double up as a Web server. The new feature in the Internet browser will allow the users to share photos, music and files directly with one another, without accessing outside services such as Facebook and Flickr. The new feature would be a part of beta for Opera 10.
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EU: browser-free Windows gives no real choice

BRUSSELS — European Union regulators said Microsoft Corp. was offering less choice, not more, by vowing to sell the next version of Windows without any Web browsers at all.

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The battle of browsers is a perennially competitive space. We get to see lots of improvements in the likes of Firefox, Chrome, Opera each month. Here is another one and for once I am impressed with Opera 10 beta. The beta hires a new notable designer and also imports some cool and necessary arrangements that give it a quotable first look from our side. Improved tabs, thumbnails, new speed dial enhancements and a remarkably improvement in speed are some of the features we have figured out by now. So, let me take you to my findings.

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Opera's supremacy over mobile browser market is being challenged by Skyfire a mobile browser, built by a Silicon Valley startup. It has been little over a year, since the mobile browser Skyfire made its debut for Windows and Symbian mobile phones. Skyfire version 0.9 beta was a free third-party mobile browser. While in beta the mobiles browser was widely appreciated for it performance and efficiency. Over the time, it has emerged as a swift and easily to handle mobile browser. Now that Skyfire's version 1.0 has been released, it's time assess its appeal in the market.
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Microsoft responds to EU browser antitrust charges

BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday confirmed it has submitted a formal response to European Union charges that tying the Internet Explorer browser to its Windows operating system violates antitrust rules. The Redmond, Wash.-based company can also seek a hearing before EU officials move toward a final decision that can fine a company up to 10 percent of annual global revenue or order it to change the way it does business.

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In this ongoing battle of browsers, the sudden traffic in bringing out a better mobile browser is suddenly worth noticing. After we wrote about Fennec - the Firefox mobile browser, Opera has announced Opera mobile browser 9.7 which is to be released very soon. Now why do I sound excited about it? Because this browser has in it some typical features that you gotta love. Opera brings back Turbo (Once used in Opera Mini, Turbo pre-loaded and compressed pages on servers before it sent out the data to your phone, giving you a much faster load time with only a slight decrease in image quality), includes flash in it, gives Google Gears a chance and many more things.

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