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Re:Microsoft confirms IE10 won't run on Vista, millions of I... by icey on Thursday April 14, 2011 @03:42PM (#2448120)
There are still mountains of money available on the web.

Since Microsoft controls the OS, they can ship a browser with defaults set to sites under their control, like msn.com and bing.

My assumption is that they consider those properties as revenue (or potential revenue) sources.

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Re:Microsoft confirms IE10 won't run on Vista, millions of I... by heyitsnick on Thursday April 14, 2011 @04:07PM (#2448209)
Hypothetically speaking, they couldn't ship windows OS with firefox preloaded with these same defaults?
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Re:Microsoft confirms IE10 won't run on Vista, millions of I... by icey on Thursday April 14, 2011 @05:11PM (#2448479)
I'm not sure. I know Google spends a ton of money paying to be the default search engine in Firefox. No idea what would happen if Microsoft tried to do the same thing on its own with their own defaults.

I'd guess it would be kind of a PR nightmare for them though. Nobody questions those defaults when the browser is owned by Microsoft.

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