The solution was that Microsoft must, on computers sold into the EU, provide a page during the start up process of a new machine where users were given a choice of browsers to download.

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Assuming there are no further glitches, the energy of the collisions will be cranked up over the next few months and the new subatomic goodies will start pouring out of the machine and into the pages of physics journals.

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Start-up Bluestacks has produced a software wrapper that lets the phone apps run on a desktop Apple machine.

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