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We're not talking about rootkits or malware, but about a default browser application, and a default search engine.

That's why I mention judgement: we expect OS vendors to make a judgement (that fact is what the top post seems to be missing).

And Microsoft makes a bad judgement now.

Microsoft isn't forcing bing as the default search engine because their judgement is poor. They do it out of malice.

Relying on judgement opens the door to malice IMO. But we agree, and it's only a matter of wording.