Ah but you see IE is still a part of windows, which I have a problem with. It should be seperate. It should be an entity that you can install when you so choose... it eats up memory, it always sits in the background... just like:
The windows firewall (SP2)
WINWORD.EXE when you send mail through Outlook 2003
Windows Messenger until you uninstall it - which you can't do with IE6.
If it was Linux... you could chuck it all away and run your OWN chosen things. You use FireFox (and so do I) but you still can't get rid of the memory. And no, FireFox is not successful as it could've been if you could get rid of IE. Click on a link in most MS applications, and it won't take you to your default browser (which is probably FireFox) but it'll take you to IE6. How more used would FireFox be if this was not the case?
No, if it's part of the OS, you have to use the $%^&* thing... we all know the quality of MS products are sometimes arrogant and lacking. I'd rather install my own antivirus and if it is my choice to go MS, then so be it. It's all about choice.
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Ah but you see IE is still a part of windows, which I have a problem with. It should be seperate. It should be an entity that you can install when you so choose... it eats up memory, it always sits in the background... just like: The windows firewall (SP2) WINWORD.EXE when you send mail through Outlook 2003 Windows Messenger until you uninstall it - which you can't do with IE6. If it was Linux... you could chuck it all away and run your OWN chosen things. You use FireFox (and so do I) but you still can't get rid of the memory. And no, FireFox is not successful as it could've been if you could get rid of IE. Click on a link in most MS applications, and it won't take you to your default browser (which is probably FireFox) but it'll take you to IE6. How more used would FireFox be if this was not the case?
No, if it's part of the OS, you have to use the $%^&* thing... we all know the quality of MS products are sometimes arrogant and lacking. I'd rather install my own antivirus and if it is my choice to go MS, then so be it. It's all about choice.