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IE7 Separated from Windows Explorer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the long-overdue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Security experts warned Microsoft 10 years ago that putting IE as a component of Windows Explorer was a bad idea, looks like Microsoft finally decided to listen to the advice. According to a short write up in Business Week, Microsoft has decided that when IE7 comes out with Vista it will no longer be a component of Windows Explorer and will be able to replace IE6 even on XP machines."

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  1. OMG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't tell me the linux people were right again! :)

  2. Re:That explains it.. by frankm_slashdot · · Score: 0, Troll

    HAHAHA.. NO. that doesnt explain it. but i can. because that same thing FUCKED ME hard when i tried uninstalling firefox from my work machine....

    in any event, firefox sets itself as the default browser in a very unfriendly way... hah. if you dont believe me you can even play along at home. try uninstalling firefox - IE wont work right anymore. ok, now that youve tried that reinstall firefox.... i think it stems from using the old deer park alphas and then upgrading to firefox 1 without uninstalling first.. my mistake...

    but whats odd though is this - nothing i could do in IE would reset IE to be default browswer.. even trying to do the file reassociations by hand failed for me. in the end, the only thing that restored IE for me was through installing the IE7 beta. funny but im kinda getting used to ie7... its not as bad as i figured it would be.

  3. Yet again...late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet another story on Slashdot posted 19 hours after it being posted on digg.com.

    1. Re:Yet again...late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Why is this modded as troll?

      The fact is that Slashdot has gone down hill in the area of technical articles since the entire political thing has been started. Or are we afraid to face the facts that Slashdot is FAR from the geek site it use to be? Sorry if I'm stepping on toes here but the content has suffered badly. It's to the point you can't even post technical issues without some jackass trying to put a political spin on it.

  4. Re:Lied to the EU? by erozen · · Score: -1, Troll

    On the other hand, having seen some of microsofts products it doesnt suprise me that a web browser which executes remote code (activex) is part of the os.

    What, like FireFox?