Grow a Pair Microsoft! Preferably made of Tungsten Carbide
Let the downvotes begin....
Microsoft, Please do not pay this ransom money and instead take that cash and fix Windows 8 so all the complaints can be silenced now and forever. I bet if you gave even half of that money to your programmers, they could come up with something that would make everyone else run and hide in fear, even Eadon.
Fuck the Eurocrasy and the Eurocrites, let them use Linux and what ever "browser" they want to use. The grey market will still sell as much product in Europe as you do now.
You should have never agreed to any of this anti-american crap to begin with. That was a sign of weakness you should have never exhibited.
If a non MS browser is so damn good then the free market says that customers will find it and use it no matter where it is or how hard it is to download. The ones that now use anything other than MS IE certainly would have and the ones who can't figure it out would not have made good customers anyway.
Besides...get this now...no one actually sells the browser... the money that is made is strictly parasitic - advertising and clicks. So who was really injured? Still you can't get a fair trial anywhere these days, especially an American company in Eurpoe. (or vice versa)
Whining Eurocrats only want to jam anti-american, anti-competitive penalties down MS throat to promote and subsidize a product that STILL almost no one uses, (Opera).
Talk about living in the past.. maybe this was an issue in the 90's but not now.
That's what you expect from the French model of society where 75% of the population lives off the efforts of the remaining 25% that still have a work ethic. Lets cut the hamstrings of MS so Opera can have a fair shake instead of letting the market decide.