Re:Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
by EE84M3i on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:07AM
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I don't think MS said it was bundled in the kernel, but it is true that parts of IE are tied into the OS (or at least used to be) in the form of mshtml and jscript.
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Re:Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
by josefx on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:57PM
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Basic functionality like windows update was implemented using websites and activex components. You couldn't run that with any other browser.
Re:Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
by anoncake on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:57PM
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Actually you could, as long as that browser used the Trident engine. Microsoft could have easily shipped a dedicated update application that's just a simple "browser" locked to the windows update website.