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I haven't seen a more "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation in a while - well, that's not true....that's kind of what's happening with this whole Radio royalties thing too; play music by artist, pay royalty...don't play music by artist, be sued by artist for boycotting.

I don't understand this tight integration they speak of. If the OS can be shipped WITHOUT the damned browser, then that should suffice. That means that without IE the OS will still work perfectly...pick up your own browser...FF, Opera, etc. etc. and go your own way. I have several PCs in my household and all but 2 are defaulted to FF. Integrated or not, they've never seen IE run. IE.exe has never popped up in the processes. I believe the "integration" in mind, is for example what WMP uses to go online, get album covers and stuff....what else is MS supposed to do?! With something like a media application, how do you unhook your own browser, and why should you be forced to?

And what do you mean, Safari isn't integrated into OSX? How can you judge one type of so-called integration, albeit invisible and then completely ignore another?. I'm pretty sure that Safari code is built into Itunes along with Quicktime, and Itunes is as much a part of OSX and WMP is of Windows 7. So stick with the monopoly excuse and leave it at that.

It seems as if there's an ulterior motive on the EU's part, it's just to figure out what it is.