Browser Wars: Microsoft's EU Browser Ballot Saps IE's Marketshare

First, the European Union decided that Microsoft was unfairly monopolizing the browser market by bundling Internet Explorer in software packages. As a result EU users are now offered a ballot that allow them to select alternatives. And it's working: IE is losing chunks of marketshare.

About 200 million Windows users of all flavors, old and new, are being served up with Microsoft's ballot window (shown above), which is a roadblock-style pop-up forcing them to choose which browser they'd like...