![]() Screenshot of browser choice screen initially showing five leading browsers in a random order. The user can scroll across the page to reveal some more possible browsers in another random order. | |
Dissolved | January 2015 |
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Area served | European Union |
Created by | Microsoft |
Products | Web browsers |
URL | browserchoice.eu at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-02-20) |
Registration | None |
Launched | 2010 |
Current status | Defunct |
BrowserChoice.eu was a website created by Microsoft in March 2010 following a decision in Microsoft Corp. v. European Commission. The case involved legal proceedings by the European Union against Microsoft and found that, by including Internet Explorer with their market-dominant Windows operating system, Microsoft had used this dominance to create a similar market position in the web browser market. The BrowserChoice.eu website was created to allow users that had not made, or were unaware of, a choice to try other browsers, and thus comply with the European Commission's ruling.
Microsoft's legal obligation to display the website expired in December 2014.[1] It was discontinued on December 18, 2014, stating only "[visit] the websites of web browser vendors directly",[2] before going offline during 2015.[3]
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