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ECIS, a lobbyist group with numerous Microsoft adversaries as members, is calling on regulators globally to follow the European Commission (EC) in requiring Microsoft to supply a browser ballot that calls out non-Internet-Explorer alternatives on the market to Computer users.Beginning March one, Microsoft began pushing out to European Union users an EC-stipulated browser ballot, which helps make it plain to customers that although World wide web Explorer (IE) arrives preloaded on Windows PCs, one can find other browsers offered. Microsoft agreed to provide the browser ballot to EU customers running IE as their default browser on XP, Vista and Windows 7 as part of a settlement take care of the EC in an antitrust case brought against Microsoft by browser maker Opera Software program.The European Committee for Interoperable Programs (ECIS) — whose members include Opera, Adobe, Corel,Genuine Windows 7, IBM, Nokia, Oracle, RealNetworks and Red Hat — is pushing for regulatory agencies in other countries to require Microsoft to deliver the browser ballot to customers outside of the EC.“Microsoft agreed to change its business practices in the face of formal charges from the Commission. Consumers deserve the same unbiased browser choice on all the world’s more than one billion personal computers,Microsoft Office Pro Plus,” said the ECIS in a March 2 press release.Given that Opera is a single of ECIS; members, it;s not too surprising that ECIS is making quite a few of the same arguments Opera did when it lodged its browser-bundling complaint towards Microsoft at the finish of 2007. More from the ECIS press release:“Microsoft has bundled its own Online Explorer Web browser with Windows and most end users accept it instead of trolling the Internet for options. Because Windows runs on 90 percent of the world’s computers,Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Student, that bundling has slowed innovation in browsers. During the first years of this century, it ground almost to a halt when there was little competition.“World-wide-web Explorer, which runs only on Windows, sometimes uses special home pc coding. Web pages created to those special standards will not run properly on other Internet browsers, making it necessary to use a Microsoft system to read them.”As I;ve said before,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, I think the browser ballot is a good thing. While IT professionals and power users know you'll find choices other than IE available and know how to get alternative browsers, various non-tech-savvy Pc consumers do not.That said, to me, it would be a waste of time and money for other regulatory bodies to have to hear cases introduced by Microsoft;s competitors in order for the ballot screen to become a globally offering. Unfortunately,Microsoft Office 2007 Key, I don;t see Microsoft proactively offering the browser ballot to users worldwide — especially not while its total browser market share continues to slide…Do you see any upsides (or downsides) to the Softies offering the ballot screen to users globally? I;ve heard from a couple of EU customers that they think Microsoft has structured the ballot poorly, making it difficult for customers who do basically want IE to get it. Anyone else having that same experience?