Surfing alternatives
On Monday this week internet users in Europe were offered a wider choice of web browsers in an attempt to break the monopoly of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer program.
Microsoft has committed to letting Windows PC users across Europe install the web browser of their choice, rather than having Microsoft IE as a default.
After an update is installed, users of Internet Explorer are shown a screen where they may choose one of a dozen other browsers, or stick with the one they have. Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera are among the alternative browsers on offer.
At bdaily, we know that more than half of our readers use Internet Explorer (that’s right, we’re watching you). So this made us wonder if any of them had been offered this choice, and whether they had switched to something else.
This week’s poll asks: Have you been offered a new browser by Microsoft?
