Microsoft's tortured stance on Windows 7 in Europe continues, with the company circling back on packaging and pricing.Microsoft's Windows 7 pretzel takes fresh twist • The Register
Having killed the planned Windows 7 E spoiler edition it unveiled for Europe, Microsoft's announced packaging and pricing in line with other worldwide markets.
Windows 7 E was the version of Microsoft's planned operating system it devised, and then strangled ahead of birth, that would have shipped without Internet Explorer 8.
The idea was, according to Microsoft, that doing so would let it stay within European Union anti-trust law.
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