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Modred189Mar 6th 2010 4:00PM

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I really don't understand the point of this article, or the whole ballot box at all.
While I understand the ballot box, and what it wants to achieve, and really don't get why MS has to do it for risk being sued. If this communist style system were the norm, Apple and every other OS maker out there should be forced to do the same thing. Furthermore, this results in MS, essentially, marketing software that is not their own, and means they will eventually get blamed for instabilities and poor performance of these browsers.

And in regards to this article and the protest by the second-screeners, what do you want MS to do? What would satisfy these people? As is, you have MS promoting browsers it has nothing to do with and cannot guarantee in terms of support, performance, security or stability. Would you rather there just be a grid of all 12 icons? People would be so confused! How about obnoxious flashing arrows, or a wall of text, or a command line interface? Really? What would you rather they do?

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