Microsoft is planning to strip out IE from the next incarnation of Windows 7 in Europe, CNET Ninternet-explorer-logo-with-pins1ews has learned. The inclusion of a browser in Windows – something Microsoft has done for more than a decade -was a likely violation of European antitrust law.

For computer makers that want it, Microsoft will offer a free “IE 8 pack” that allows them to add the browser back in, ship another browser or ship multiple browsers.