Microsoft have made changes to the browser ballot screen that will prompt users in Europe to help them make selections on which browser they would like to use. The modified browser ballot screen will open up to testers in Europe that will include the following changes:
- Make it so competing browsers can be downloaded from the ballot screen more quickly and easily
- Ensure equivalent placement on the Windows 7 taskbar for Internet Explorer and all other browser icons
- Add introductory information, improving the design of the ballot page about each browser to help users make more informed choices
- Alphabetize the list of browsers so that the five most popular are listed first (by vendor), followed by the next seven most popular (also alphabetically ordered), so that 12 choices are displayed in total
- Provide the browser ballot to users for five years
The proposed changes will surely please the European Commission (EC) regulators and many consumers in Europe. The browser ballot screen will allow users to not only install other browsers, 12 in total, including Internet Explorer, but be able to uninstall Internet Explorer all together.
The newly modified browser ballot screen makes choosing what browser consumers want to use easily, ranking the top five browsers in current use in alphabetical order, sorted by vendor, shown on the main view with Safari, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
Microsoft plans to push the browser ballot screen through Windows Update to Windows 7 PCs, including machines that go on sale on October 22.
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