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The browser ballot is a screen introduced by Microsoft to comply with European Union antitrust regulations, allowing Windows users to choose from a list of web browsers during setup. Discussions on WindowsForum.com cover the 2009 revision where Microsoft agreed to randomly generate the browser list order, moving from alphabetical to random display to address complaints from browser makers like Opera, Google, and Mozilla. The ballot screen was also changed from an Internet Explorer feature to a standard webpage format. These threads focus on the technical and regulatory aspects of the browser ballot implementation.
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    Microsoft has agreed to randomly generate the list of browsers in the ballot screen i

    Microsoft to randomly generate EU browser ballot list In response to complaints from browser makers, Microsoft has revised its antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators so that Windows users will see a browser ballot screen that randomly lists the icons of the top five browsers upon...
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