No IE In Windows 7?!?! - Seph will be happy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stmWell it's about time Microsoft saw they were losing the internet browser fight. Mozilla's Firefox is just too much comptetition for Microsoft's IE. What do you think about it, and another Microsoft related story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8095932.stm
I'm sure that plan will also be a failure but hey, you give your opinions

this has nothing to do with them losing. This is the EU deciding that bundling IE with windows is anti-competitive and banning them from doing it.

Haha, microsoft can't be happy then, it isn't really hard to download IE anyway, i just want to know who actually will download it compared to the other browsers out there.

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People that have thought that IE is the only internet browser :DAnd don't worry, there are plenty that still believe that IE is still the only browser. I only just showed my mum recently that there is a better way to browse the net.Even before I started using PC's fulltime, I thought IE was the the only way to access the net.I wouldn't be suprised if there were members here that believe Internet Explorer is the only way to access the net.

and how the hell are we supposed to download Firefox without downloading IE??

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I guess via a disc or by a friend that has downloaded from their PC.

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and If it's your first computer, or when you don't have friends? :P

dos ftp or wget.

I don't see what everyones problem with IE is.... i kinda like it... firefox gives me too many problemsmaybe it will come built with another web browser besides IE

With start up there should be an option to download one of the popular internet browsers to your computer, perhaps Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and you can pick which one you want.

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that was suggested by someone in the EU.

timmy1991 · #9I don't see what everyones problem with IE is.... i kinda like it...

It's highly insecure, doesn't display pages properly and ignores web standards. It's an absolute pain in the arse to make websites work properly on it for this reason.

I dropped IE and started using Google Chrome

Loonylion · #11that was suggested by someone in the EU.

Oh, so somebody is on the same wavelength as me for once >:|

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just because someone suggested it does not mean anyone took them seriously. We'll see what happens. Personally I wouldnt be surprised if europeans get a crippled version of windows as a result.

Meh I prefer Fire Fox anyday over IE

Loonylion · #14just because someone suggested it does not mean anyone took them seriously. We'll see what happens. Personally I wouldnt be surprised if europeans get a crippled version of windows as a result.

Actually i have to agree there. Isn't IE built into Windows instead of just being an extension or whatever it's called. So removing it, i believe will cause a bit of a problem "/

yes, it's heavily integrated and removing it will be a major undertaking, especially if they don't want to cripple anything. Having said that, the deep integration is actually the source of more than a few major security flaws in windows (or at least makes them more serious than they need to be), so this isn't necessarily a bad move.

no IE no Problem.. b'coz IE is not secure, and you can use chrome,safari,mozila,firefox that's safe than IE

Well if I don't like the change i'll just drag over all my files from this computer to the new one 'guv

As much as I dislike IE I think this is too damn stupid, Microsoft have made a product that a lot of people use, and for that sole reason it's anti-competitive. It's like with everything else in Europe, success is forbidden; tax is extremely high on the last money earned, and now if you become too big they feed you this crap. By the same measure explorer and minesweeper should be removed, people obviously aren't going to download other explorer programs or minesweeper games when they come bundled with Windows!