{"id":62980,"date":"2012-10-24T12:44:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=62980"},"modified":"2012-10-24T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:55:06","slug":"microsoft-failed-browser-choice-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/62980-microsoft-failed-browser-choice-commitments.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft failed browser choice commitments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> did not meet commitments to provide clients a web browser choice in 2011-12, the <a title=\"European Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/476802-European-Commission\">European Commission<\/a> said Wednesday as it pursued a probe that could lead to more fines for the US software giant.<\/p>\n<p>The commission has told the company &#8220;of its preliminary view that Microsoft has failed to comply with its commitments to offer users a choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred web browser&#8221; between February 2011 and July 2012, a statement said.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Windows 8 launch pricing for SA emerges\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/62866-windows-8-launch-pricing-for-sa-emerges.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 8 launch pricing for SA emerges<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Windows Phone 8 SA unveiling announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/62968-windows-phone-8-sa-unveiling-announced.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows Phone 8 SA unveiling announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Nokia vs HTC vs Samsung: Windows Phone 8 spec sheet showdown\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/60295-nokia-vs-htc-vs-samsung-windows-phone-8-spec-sheet-showdown.html\">Nokia vs HTC vs Samsung: Windows Phone 8 spec sheet showdown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft hasn&#8217;t met browser commitments for 2011-2012 as stipulated by the European Commission <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":58341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,979,123,11187],"class_list":["post-62980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-browser","tag-microsoft","tag-web-browser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62984,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62980\/revisions\/62984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}