Remove IE 8

Quote: The latest test builds of Windows 7, Microsoft's successor to its Vista operating system, allows users to completely delete Internet Explorer from their systems. While previous versions of Windows allowed you to disable IE, it appears the Windows 7 will be the first to allow you to get rid of the actual IE 8 executable.

Personally I'm sure that's not enough, OS X can come with Safari and most Linux distros come with firefox as the only useful options. However until windows comes with firefox, or maybe chrome Microsoft would be to anti-competitive

Is this post supposed to be a stab at Microsoft or ?

Quote: Original post by Gametaku
Personally I'm sure that's not enough, OS X can come with Safari and most Linux distros come with firefox as the only useful options. However until windows comes with firefox, or maybe chrome Microsoft would be to anti-competitive

I was trying to think of a way to sugarcoat this, but I'm just going to come out with it.

I have no idea what the hell you just said, let alone what your point might be.

(Also, good luck finding a significant Linux distro that installs GNOME but not Epiphany, or KDE but not Konqueror.)

I'm not sure why this is such a big story, being only marginally more thorough than the existing "uninstaller" that just removes the shortcut. Other than sloppily programmed software that is hard-coded to run iexplore.exe all you really need to do is install another browser and set that as default and you never need hear from Internet Explorer's front-end again (though its HTML rendering components may well be used in other applications).

I guess MS finnaly realised that computer-clueless people won't even think to uninstall anything from the OS. Besides I'm pretty sure that if they really wanted (I mean they have the bucks) they could make a kickass browser and sell it so bad that nobody would ever think to use another web-browser again.

Quote: Original post by owl
I guess MS finnaly realised that computer-clueless people won't even think to uninstall anything from the OS.

It has nothing to do with computer clueless people. In general, users don't care what browser is on their system and will simply use the first one they find. The uninstallable IE thing is an OEM demand, so they can strike deals with Mozilla or Netscape or Google or whatever to offer exclusively that browser.

Quote: Original post by benryves
I'm not sure why this is such a big story, being only marginally more thorough than the existing "uninstaller" that just removes the shortcut. Other than sloppily programmed software that is hard-coded to run iexplore.exe all you really need to do is install another browser and set that as default and you never need hear from Internet Explorer's front-end again (though its HTML rendering components may well be used in other applications).

Don't most of Microsoft help viewers all use IE under the covers? I know when I installed the IE8 beta all my MSDN and SQL Server Books Online pages from document explorer all got screwed up.

I really don't see what the big deal about having IE as a default browser is, there's at least 4 viable competitor browsers that are all easy to obtain (and free). They'll be removing media player and the start bar next.

I don't think Windows 7 has help viewer installed.

Quote: Original post by evolutional
Don't most of Microsoft help viewers all use IE under the covers? I know when I installed the IE8 beta all my MSDN and SQL Server Books Online pages from document explorer all got screwed up.

HTML Help (.chm) files use IE's rendering engine, as do mail clients such as Windows Live Mail Desktop.

Quote: They'll be removing media player and the start bar next.

Windows XP Edition N is a special version that doesn't come with Media Player or related or components to placate - once again - the EU.

I still can't believe they force you to use the windows gui. the bastards....