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Windows 7 Kill Switch For IE Confirmed — For More Apps, Too

Posted by timothy on from the for-just-a-few-dollars-more dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft has confirmed that users will be able to remove its IE8 browser, as well as several other integrated applications, from Windows 7. Jack Mayo, a group program manager on the Windows team, listed in a blog post the applications that can be switched off. They include Internet Explorer 8, Fax and Scan, handwriting recognition, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Gadget Platform, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, Windows Search, and XPS Viewer and Services. He explained that the files associated with those applications and features are not actually deleted from the hard drive. The public beta of Windows 7 does not include the ability to 'kill' said apps. But a pirated copy of Windows 7 Build 7048 includes the new removal options, and has been leaked on the Internet." (We mentioned the reported ability to turn off IE8 yesterday as well.)

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  1. Poor Timothy by Aziabel · · Score: 0, Troll

    /. must have you working overtime, blurring the days together. "(We mentioned the reported ability to turn off IE8 yesterday as well.)" However, today is Friday and the "yesterday" in question was Wednesday. It's okay, my friend, the days are often meaningless to me, too - I work the administrative side of IT.

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  2. A contradiction? You tell me. by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Microsoft has confirmed that users will be able to remove its IE8 browser, as well as several other integrated applications, from Windows 7...

    Then later in the introduction...the applications can be switched off instead.

    Jack Mayo, a group program manager on the Windows team, listed in a blog post the applications that can be switched off. They include Internet Explorer 8, Fax and Scan, handwriting recognition, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Gadget Platform, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, Windows Search, and XPS Viewer and Services.

    Ohh wait...

    ...He explained that the files associated with those applications and features are not actually deleted from the hard drive...

    Now though I can remove IE8, I cannot delete *all* files associated with IE8! Does Mocrosoft think they can fool us or what?

  3. Re:Why not? by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can get this same sort of thing in linux using the ln.

    For Debian-based systems, just drop the relevant .deb in /var/cache/apt/archives/

  4. Re:Why not? by Chyeld · · Score: 0, Troll

    My, how wonderfully condescending and rude of you. I'm sure, if I wasn't already a Linux supporter, I'd just jump right out and try it after reading that particularly rancid piece of your mind.

    Hint: I didn't say shit about anyone forcing me to use Windows. I said Microsoft was forcing me to use their products in Windows. Two entirely different things, and surprisingly, your self-righteous suggestion doesn't address the one I actually commented on.

    I'd say, "Try again" but then I read your comment history and decided once was enough for me.