The browser ballot screen debacle began as a complaint by the makers of the hugely un popular Opera browser to the EU about the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.  This followed on from similar complaints about the bundling of Windows Media Player and it’s sure to rumble on in a variety of ways in the coming years. The move was widely derided at the time by tech journalists as being unnecessary, confusing and a waste of EU legislature time.  Now that the rollout is starting I’m beginning to think that perhaps the biggest winners in this will be consumers in the EU and the biggest losers will be the countries where the browser ballot won’t be seen. Here’s the logic.  If we look back to the time when Internet Explorer 6 ruled the world, having seen off Netscape once and for all, there was stagnation.  This allowed all sorts of security exploits and attacks to appear that we’re still suffering from today.  Only with the introduction of the Firefox browser from the Mozilla foundation did we have any competition, and thus improved security

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Windows browser ballot – who are the winners?