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EU Windows Vista to include Adobe Reader but no antivirus
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Bruno Segers, the former general manager of Microsoft Belgium has written an open letter to 
European Union Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes, published on his blog. In the letter, written in Dutch, Segers expresses concern that the EU’s decision to force Microsoft to include Adobe Reader in the Windows Vista e version and remove any anti virus bundled with it will lead to an operating system that is more expensive and less secure than non European variants.
As a result, customers will choose the non-Euro versions of Windows Vista, Segers predicts.
Segers points to the experience with Windows XP, which the the EU said Microsoft must make available without Windows Media Player. This version sold poorly, Segers says. EU Windows Vista to include Adobe Reader but no antivirus
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