The Windows Browser Ballot, the browser selection screen that is being offered to Windows users in Europe starting this month, is already coming under fire. Slovakian IT news site DSL.sk decided to test the ballot and found that its distribution was very peculiar, with Internet Explorer appearing in the rightmost position almost 50 percent of the time when the ballot was viewed from within IE.
Notable ODF proponent and IBM employee Rob Weir took a closer look at the ballot to determine why it was acting in this way. It turns out that the problem is more likely than not a bad programming decision rather than some deliberate ploy by Microsoft to pick a particular spot.
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