Microsoft told to unbundle IE

According to a story in today's NZ Herald, the European Union has told Microsoft to unbundle the web browser Internet Explorer from the Windows operating system. Among other things, there are claims that the software is badly bloated, and web pages written primarily with IE in mind display badly in other browsers, such as Firefox and Opera. That is certainly true, but the complaints don't touch on what to me is an even more significant problem. If you want to download any software - particularly system updates - from the Microsoft website, the site will not allow you to do so with any browser but IE. That to me is real abuse of your position of power.