[darkwater]

Not in Europe though. We had a WinXP version without IE and a prompt at first install to choose the desired browser

[Y_Y]

I was really excited about the "browser ballot" when that judgement came through. In the end though it appeared on tragically few installs. I never even saw it in the wild.

It was a mess for other reasons too, but it felt at the time like it represented a turning tide against anti-competitive behaviour in software.