Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Mar 2009 17:04 UTC
Following the EU investigation into Internet Explorer's inclusion in Windows, Microsoft made it possible to "turn off" Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7, by removing the executable and every mention of the browser from the system. According to Opera and Google, this is nice, but not enough.
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RE[2]: Well, IE is never really ever gone.
by gfolkert on Thu 12th Mar 2009 19:28
in reply to "RE: Well, IE is never really ever gone."
RE[2]: Well, IE is never really ever gone.
by ephracis on Thu 12th Mar 2009 19:47
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Make trident into a normal library that can be installed and uninstalled. Than let all those 10,000 applications put trident as a dependency. Put all stuff into a repo and start to use that "Add/remove programs"-thingy in Windows as it should be used (IMO).
Seriously, package management is a really good feature that Windows lacks.
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Do you really think people are going to use internet explorer through windows explorer? Why would they do that if they could just install it and have a nice icon to click on.
But the browser is needed by the OS itself e.g. for providing help and by thousands if not 10,000's of applications that use it themselves. Should each application bundle the libraries themselves? Then every time MS patches something in the Trident every one has to update their applications in order to be secure.