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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 ev
by quanticle 4y ago
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.
- shadowgovt 4y agoIt'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.
- kevingadd 4y agoThe CHM viewer used for many help files is a webview, yeah.
- CodesInChaos 4y agoThe webview control based on the internet explorer engine was rather important. Internet Explorer the application less so.
- dylan604 4y agoYou 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