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Re:EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions fo... by rickdeckard on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:56AM (#43422491)
Some people apparently don't remember Windows 98 and how Microsoft tried to demonstrate that Internet Explorer is suddenly such an integral part of the OS that it's technically impossible to separate it.

It didn't work, they were forced to decouple it again (which was susprisingly simple), and despite the somewhat weak result for Win98 I think we can be thankful for that.

I don't want to imagine how Windows 2000 would have looked if they would have continued cementing IE6 into the frontend...

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Re:EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions fo... by rightbyte on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:00PM (#43425019)
> Some people apparently don't remember Windows 98 and how Microsoft tried to demonstrate that Internet Explorer is suddenly such an integral part of the OS that it's technically impossible to separate it.

Heh ye. That was obvious BS. Wasn't there like, sometimes, it looked like IE was running as a widget inside an window? Like search or something?

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Re:EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions fo... by rickdeckard on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:03PM (#43425055)
You mean the "Active Desktop" I think, some small widgets on top of the desktop wallpaper which usually showed 404's because you didn't dial up to the Internet yet :)
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