Ah I misinterpreted your comment as "non-EU copies have IE so Microsoft wasn't forced to remove it everywhere". I see what you mean was that even in the EU Mic

Ah I misinterpreted your comment as "non-EU copies have IE so Microsoft wasn't forced to remove it everywhere". I see what you mean was that even in the EU Microsoft isn't forced. Having understood that, they were getting pretty hefty fines there and this along with other measures went somewhat to fixing that.