Looks like the antitrust scuffle has not ended and Microsoft has announced that it will be providing another version of Windows 7 for Europe and sadly not Internet Explorer. Yes folk! No Internet Explorer for you guys! It seems the EU has ordered Microsoft to separate the Web surfing software from its PC operating system. This preliminary decision has come after a year long investigations into complaints from a rival browser maker. Microsoft’s browser is mostly widely used all over the world but it seems Firefox is getting more popular and Google, which is world’s most preferred internet search tool has released its own browser, Google Chrome. Microsoft had already built into Windows 7 a way to disable Internet Explorer, a change that seemed enough to satisfy the regulator’s concern. But there are alternatives like pre-installing other browsers on Windows 7 or a screen that would prompt people to choose their browsers from a list of options.

[Physorg]