Likely the selection dialog was bootstrapped into new Windows Activation, whereas the Service Pack upgraded existing IE components; which are present on the system regardless of which program is registered to handle hyper links.
Overall, I am wondering why the EU is picking on HTTP/HTML support alone and not requiring Microsoft to offer choices on alternate desktop shells, file systems, etc...
you'd find it pretty difficult to demonstrate that by abusing their monopoly in the desktop shell market they caused harm in another; it was pretty easy to demonstrate for browsers.
There are alternate shells available (and were in the past as well, like GEM) and it seems that Microsoft's Windows domination with its default shell is both demonstrable and a direct result of their bundling the shell with the "OS" (there was a time the two were separate, back in Windows 3.1 and earlier days). Heck, when they bundled a TCP/IP stack in Windows 95 it pretty much spelled the end for Trumpet Winsock.
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Likely the selection dialog was bootstrapped into new Windows Activation, whereas the Service Pack upgraded existing IE components; which are present on the system regardless of which program is registered to handle hyper links.
Overall, I am wondering why the EU is picking on HTTP/HTML support alone and not requiring Microsoft to offer choices on alternate desktop shells, file systems, etc...
you'd find it pretty difficult to demonstrate that by abusing their monopoly in the desktop shell market they caused harm in another; it was pretty easy to demonstrate for browsers.
There are alternate shells available (and were in the past as well, like GEM) and it seems that Microsoft's Windows domination with its default shell is both demonstrable and a direct result of their bundling the shell with the "OS" (there was a time the two were separate, back in Windows 3.1 and earlier days). Heck, when they bundled a TCP/IP stack in Windows 95 it pretty much spelled the end for Trumpet Winsock.