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In an interview with PC Pro, Mike Conner, Firefox Architect,  comments on the recent controversy surrounding Microsoft in the EU, saying that he would be against bundling Firefox with Windows.

“My personal view is that it’s not the right outcome, the choice would be weird. There’s no good UI for that.”

It was Opera who brought the charges against Microsoft, saying that bundling translates into marketshare, and Microsoft’s bundling of IE with Windows was monopolistic.  But Connor disagrees, referring to Firefox’s rapidly climbing marketshare:

“It’s [Opera] asserting that bundling leads to market share. I don’t know how you can make the claim with a straight face, as people become aware there’s an alternative, you don’t end up in that situation. You have to be perceptibly better.”

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A few weeks ago, the European Comission complained about Microsoft bundling it’s web browser with it’s operating system, calling it anti-competitive and monopolistic.

Now the EU is considering forcing Microsoft or computer manufacturers to bundle Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari with the operating system.

Microsoft faces the threat of monetary fines, proportional to the sales of windows-based PC’s, and they plan to request a hearing on the matter, before the Commission makes it’s ruling in 2 months.