Microsoft’s Web Browser Ballot Starting in March

Microsoft’s answering the European Commission after a lot of struggling and starting tomorrow, March 1^st, Windows users will have the chance to decide which browser will be your default in your machine.

Web Browser Ballot will be available in Windows XP, Vista and 7 operating systems as a Windows update. Soon as you download the update, a window will appear where the browsers will be listed randomly from which you’ll select your default browser.

I found very interesting the feature available for randomly listing the browsers, which avoids any suggestion that could induce a user to make a pick according to the location in your screen of the browsers. Here’s evidence of the random is actually working:

Internet Explorer 8 showing third in browser’s list.

Internet Explorer 8 showing first in browser’s list.

From what we know, the ballot will only appear to users that have Internet Explorer as the default browser; if you have any other as default, the list won’t appear to you.

For more information, here’s the official document with Microsoft’s commitment.

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