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Title: Microsoft Choice screen boosts Opera browser
Post by: Simon on March 18, 2010, 22:03

Web browser Opera says that downloads of its software have doubled since Microsoft introduced browser choice to Windows users on 1 March.

Microsoft now offers customers a choice of 12 browsers rather than installing its own Internet Explorer browser as a default.  A screen offering users the chance to switch browser is rolling out across Europe as part of a Windows update.  Opera says that in Poland 77% of downloads have come from the screen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8574883.stm

Title: Re: Microsoft Choice screen boosts Opera browser
Post by: sam on March 19, 2010, 00:41

good for them! Though it could just be people going - WTF... and giving it a go, who says they will stay.

Title: Re: Microsoft Choice screen boosts Opera browser
Post by: Rik on March 19, 2010, 10:02

How many, I wonder, will feel comfortable with having a choice?

Title: Re: Microsoft Choice screen boosts Opera browser
Post by: Simon on March 19, 2010, 11:00

I would have thought those wanting a choice would have made it by now.

Title: Re: Microsoft Choice screen boosts Opera browser
Post by: Rik on March 19, 2010, 11:01

I agree, the rest will be wary of changing what they are comfortable with.

Title: Re: Microsoft Choice screen boosts Opera browser
Post by: sam on March 19, 2010, 13:30

alas that will be IE.

Title: Re: Microsoft Choice screen boosts Opera browser
Post by: Simon on March 19, 2010, 14:02

Indeed.