You can’t get away from noticing it really, it makes its presence felt as soon as you restart Windows.
There is no warning of it and it can give you quite a shock when it pops up on the screen and you could be mistaken for thinking that your PC has been infected with a Virus or a piece of Malware, and if you ignore it, it will not go away either.
Back In December 2009, the European Commission and Microsoft agreed on a number of ongoing competition law issues. Microsoft resided to agreeing to allow PC Manufacturers and PC users to continue installing any Web browser of their choice and to have the option to turn Internet Explorer on or off. Let’s face it, IE has not been the most secure or the most reliable browser lately has it, so users do not want to be left with no choice but to use it!
Microsoft and the EC agreed that the best way to resolve this resolved was to add the Browser Choices software to Windows Update. The Browser Choice screen allows the user to choose to install any of the alternative browsers listed, there is also a MORE INFORMATION button so that you can read a little more on the Browser and decide whether you would like to install it or not. You can of course just stick with Internet Explorer.
This Windows Update is currently in a test phase and will be released across the rest of Europe on the 1st March.
Maybe Microsoft could have branded the box a little better, so that users do not automatically think that they have been infected with a Virus or Malware. Apart from that, it is a useful update.
