A Glorious Day!

What makes today such a great and wonderful day in the history of humankind:

The elimination of poverty? No...

Unemployment rates being slashed? No...

Diseases eradicated? No...

Individuals allowed to keep more of their own hard-earned money via less taxation? Let's not be ridiculous...

No, what makes today quite possibly one of the best days of your life is:

From today, people running Microsoft's Windows operating system will be presented with a screen asking them to choose which web browser they would like to use. Computer users will be able to choose between 12 different browsers, ranging from well-known browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera, to some more obscure software, such as K-meleon and Sleipnir.

Microsoft was forced to introduce the browser "ballot box" following a ruling by the European Commission that Microsoft's practice of pre-installing Internet Explorer on every new computer was anti-competitive. The Commission accepted Microsoft’s offer of rolling out the ballot box across its range of Windows machines, which it believes will make it easier for computer users to choose an alternative browser to Internet Explorer.

Hundreds of millions of (taxpayer) euros and thousands of hours of lost productivity all so the citizenry can be free from want, free from disease, free to chart their own path in life, free from the possibility of Bing being their default search engine.

Celebrate!