Microsoft has pulled the plug on the browser ballot screen it was forced to display in the aftermath of a threat by the European Union’s antitrust agency five years ago.

The browser choice screen had been mandated in 2009 as part of the settlement Microsoft struck with the EU’s Competition Commission, which had threatened fines after officials launched an investigation into the U.S. company’s practice of bundling Internet Explorer (IE) with Windows. That investigation was launched two years earlier after Norwegian browser maker Opera Software accused Microsoft of manipulating the battle for browser share.

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