Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from Your PC

Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by quanticle on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:42PM (#34871247)

    but a core and critical functionality of your entire OS such that any
    attempt to sidestep or evade it would be met with ruination?

Was Internet Explorer ever actually a core and critical part of Windows? Sure, Microsoft claimed that it was. But of course, they would have done that, given that the alternative was to admit that the Justice Department's argument was correct, and that Internet Explorer was being bundled in an anti-competitive manner to deprive Netscape of sales.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by shadowgovt on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:47PM (#34871318)

It's been a long time. I'm trying to remember if they'd rewired things so the Help function actually ran atop the IE rendering agent, or if I'm thinking of MacOSX and Safari.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by kevingadd on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:15PM (#34873677)

The CHM viewer used for many help files is a webview, yeah.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by CodesInChaos on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:51PM (#34871375)

The webview control based on the internet explorer engine was rather important. Internet Explorer the application less so.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by dylan604 on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:50PM (#34872075)

You could enter an http address into File Explore in place of the C:\ nonsense, and it would replace the folder view contents with the website. See, embedded at the core. /s

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