> a browser with a reputation to crash all the time and bring down Windows with it IE post-dates the addition of process isolation to Windows - IE never brough

> a browser with a reputation to crash all the time and bring down Windows with it IE post-dates the addition of process isolation to Windows - IE never brought down Windows because it ran as a normal process. When people say IE was integrated into Windows they just mean applications like the shell used it as a component, it wasn't actually in the kernel.