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In the end, the issue comes down to where do you draw the line between IE code and OS code, and how much of it can be feasibly removed.Įxcuse me, but wasn’t part of their Antitrust defense that Bill Gates stood on the witness stand and said that IE was so intertwined in the OS that it could NEVER BE taken apart? Microsoft’s arguments in the antitrust case came down to saying “There’s IE code in COMDLG.DLL, so we can’t remove IE from the system or almost every program will stop working.” The functionality is spread somewhat randomly amongst files such as COMDLG.DLL (Common Dialogs) and other core Windows DLL’s that have existed forever. They aren’t all tossed in MSHTML.DLL or other similar DLL’s. All it does is load the individual components that provide the functionality and provide the interface to connect them. IE the browser is a relatively small exe file that doesn’t do all that much. IE has always run as its own process in userspace. It has always been a separate application. So many people have completely misunderstood how IE worked with the OS. –bornagainpenguin (who wishes these mega corporations would go back to serving the end users and power-users rather than themselves and their mega corporation friends…) These days however there are more and more alternatives popping up all over the place and many of us are unwilling to wait long enough to allow them to get it right this time. Unfortunately as this whole IE fiasco has shown over the years, when they get there they have a bad habit of allowing themselves to lose their momentum and becoming arrogant about their position. Microsoft usually gets it right… eventually.

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The only thing I can say about this ‘news’ is that its too little and too late for many of us who have been doing the deintergration dance since Windows 98 hit the shelves, as most of us have either moved on to Mac OS or Linux or are carefully preparing our hardware software data formats for such a move. Only I automate the process with a little something called nLite and this helps me to configure my Windows box (when I use it) to use the apps I want without the insecurity of IE on my machine. If you were really determined you could use Windows without IE. You could delete the DLLs and break all of the software that makes uses of the controls, including the shell.

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