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Windows 7 Lets You Uninstall IE8
CWmike writes "A just-leaked build of Windows 7 lets users remove Internet Explorer, the first time that Microsoft has offered the option since it integrated the browser with Windows in 1997, two bloggers reported today. The move might have been prompted by recent charges by the European Union that Microsoft has stifled browser competition by bundling IE with its operating system, the bloggers speculated. One solution under consideration by the EU would require Microsoft to disable IE if the user decided to install a different browser, such as Mozilla's Firefox or Google's Chrome. Microsoft had no comment when asked to confirm whether Windows 7 will let users dump IE8 or whether the option was in reaction to the EU charges."
That must be a real pain when you disagree with a decision that Canonical or Linus makes (though I suspect you simply ignore it in that case).
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
It just struck me:
McAfee = Mac A Fee
Mac more that just a fee while you're at it.
I am not watching current Windows scene too closely but I remember AOL applications always linking to MSHTML, even their most popular applications of their time. Today, vendors don't even feel the need of writing ''MS IE required'' as they assume it must be already there.
Perhaps pushing MS to truly remove IE is unrealistic, pushing them to make it like Apple Webkit/Safari in terms of both being open and closed with their (MS) own open source terms is the way to go? I am not saying GPL or even Apache. Well, no court can push them that hard so it won't likely happen.
I'm sorry but your rambling is quite incoherent.
Firstly, AOL is not a "die-hard rival" to MS, in fact, the complete opposite. If you remember in the good old days MS had links to sign up for AOL plastered all over your desktop. So you fail straight up.
I'm not sure what your meaning of "GPL or even Apache" means, it's rather confusing. One is an open source licensing system, the other is a web server.
To be honest, you seem like someone who's heard a few buzz words and really has no idea what you're on about. Next time maybe email your responses to a competent IT professional prior to posting on slashdot, otherwise you just come across like an idiot.
lets' make something perfectly clear. windows without the browser integrated inside is the suxx0rz. windows with the browser integrated inside is the way it shoud be. teh EU on purpose decided to decree that windows shan't have the browser built in because they deliberately want to ruin windows so you will be forced to use a locked down 'trusted' platfrom. well that is the suxx0rz and i will not do it. you can pry my windowx with build in internet explore r from my cold dead fingers. windows rocks. everythingelse is teh suxx0rz.
Aw... poor baby, keep with the cheap shots... it will always get mommy's attention.
You said it was a monopoly dick. I said there IS NO monopoly.