Browsers, Ballots, or Bullets?
Europeans will soon get to vote for their favorite browser, thanks to EU sanctions against Microsoft. eSarcasm has the scoop on what that ballot should really look like.
Here in the good old U.S.A., Microsoft pretty much gets what it wants from the government. Oh sure, every five years or so they get sued for anti-trust violations, but it’s never anything a few hundred lawyers at $700 an hour can’t fix.
In Europe, however, it’s a different story. The EU is so ticked off about Microsoft monopolizing the browser market — by wedging Internet Explorer into Windows tighter than a thong between Oprah’s butt cheeks — that it’s doing something about it.
When buyers of new PCs across the pond turn on their machines, they’ll soon be staring at a ballot that lets them vote for their preferred browser. Ars Technica has a copy of the ballot that’s apparently been approved by both the EU and Microsoft. It looks something like this:
However, eSarcasm has learned that this is in fact a well orchestrated cover up. We have obtained copies of the original, unvarnished ballot. It looks just a little bit different:
We thought, heck, this is such a good idea, why not extend it to other categories? For example, when you finally launch the browser of your choice, shouldn’t it give you a choice of home pages as well?
Hell yes is the answer you’re looking for. So here’s our proposed home page ballot:
We think the choice is pretty clear. Don’t you?
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Megan Fox rules out Digg. (She's not hot in the least.)
Can't say I'm too familiar with TechCrunch.
I never use the Google main page.
Yahoo! has some decent stories on that big box thingy labelled TODAY on its main page, but they are rare and slow to scroll through.
You know what that means!
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Wikipedia.
sorry, dude, you lost us after “megan fox is not hot in the least.”
so how's the weather on Planet WTF?
A little too humid for my tastes. I relocated to Planet “Screw the Home Pages, I'll Just Set Firefox to “Recover Tabs from Last Session” a while ago.
How 'bout an OS ballot as well?
cool. I hear the women on Planet STHPIJSFTRTFLS have three breasts.
OS ballot? you mean there's more than one?
dt
Nah. You're thinking of Planet WTF.
Yeah, apparently there is more than one, from what I've heard. Either it was called Mindows, or Wac OS X. Or maybe it was Fubuntu or Ubedora.
the best advertisement for windows 7? “Not Vista.”
Where is the blank page button on the homepage selection?
Where is the blank page button on the homepage selection?