Daily Firefox downloads decreased by 63 percent during the nearly 15 months that Microsoft failed to show users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 a court-mandated browser choice screen, according to figures released by Mozilla.
In settlement of a European Union antitrust case, Microsoft agreed to present new Windows users with a screen allowing them to choose a web browser to install instead of, or in addition to, Internet Explorer. Microsoft should have presented the browser choice screen to new and existing Windows users from December 2009, but failed to include it in Windows 7 SP1 on its release in February 2011. Microsoft reinstated the choice screen after a complaint was filed with antitrust regulators at the European Commission.
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