announced through its blog that the Mozilla team would be held
alongside the European Commission to resolve the issue of monopoly of
Microsoft on the software market, especially , the browsers.
The outfit's chairwoman and former CEO Mitchell Baker posted a blog
late on Friday in which she backed last month's preliminary findings
by the European Commission, which stated the tying of IE to Windows
"harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation
and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
Mitchell Baker said that in 90 years the U.S. Department of Justice
had ruled promoting illegal Internet Explorer 4, which still allowed
the Redmond giant to earn 90% on the browser market in the
overwhelming supremacy of Netscape.
For its part, to gain some market share, Google announced last
November that its browser Chrome would soon be pre-installed on
certain versions of Windows in partnership with various manufacturers.
Mozilla has remained surprisingly quiet since news broke last month
that the European Union's executive body had given Microsoft eight
weeks to respond to its findings, which followed a year-long
investigation it launched after complaints from rival browser maker
Opera.
But now the non-profit organisation behind Firefox – the world's
second most popular browser – has stepped forward with an offer to
assist Brussels on "what an effective remedy would entail" in its
ongoing IE probe.
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