The seemingly never-ending antitrust trial in Europe may possibly shortly arrive to a close, if a brand new report by Bloomberg is about the income.Bloomberg reported on December 3 that the European Commission (EC) might problem its last treatment inside the browser-bundling case involving Opera Software and Microsoft by December fifteen. Based on the Bloomberg report,
Microsoft Office Standard 2007, which cites two unnamed sources,
Office 2010 Pro, the browser-ballot screen — which will allow PC users in Europe to select from a variety of browsers,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, rather than having to figure out what alternatives to Internet Explorer (IE) are out there and how to download them — has been modified yet again. Bloomberg is reporting the ultimate browser-ballot display that Microsoft will offer to Windows XP, Windows Vista and
Windows 7 users will include modifications advocated by Opera. (That;s according to Opera officials quoted inside the story).Last month, just before the EC-imposed comment deadline, Opera,
Genuine Office 2007, Google and Mozilla all weighed in with modifications they wanted to see to the latest browser-ballot proposal. Opera officials said they were opposed to the inclusion of the Microsoft logo being at the top of the ballot,
Windows 7 Professional Key, fearing undue influence on users. Opera’s CEO also said he wanted to bar Microsoft from displaying a warning if and when users choose to download rival’s software program. Mozilla officials said they were opposed to listing the five biggest browser vendors (by market share) in alphabetical order around the browser display.Opera lodged its initial browser-bundling complaint against Microsoft in December 2007. The EC has not yet said whether it intends to levy fines against Microsoft as part of this complaint or whether the browser-ballot screen treatment — which Microsoft agreed to during settlement talks with the EC — will go far enough to level the playing field inside the EC;s eyes.