4 responses to “What you can turn off in Windows 7”

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   Yalin March 6th, 2009 at 23:20

   The one great thing about this change is that Internet Explorer can (hopefully) be turned entirely off. No more viruses from having that awful program simply installed on my computer. If I really need to get onto microsoft’s website I can simply use another computer or reenable it later.

   I wonder how microsoft is going to deal with users that have IE8 uninstalled from their system?

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   Richard March 6th, 2009 at 23:36

   The post is signed “Jack”. Is that Steven’s nickname?

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   woody March 7th, 2009 at 06:56

   HA!

   Good catch. “Jack” is Jack Mayo and he and a team of people wrote the post.

   Steve approved it. But you can bet that a zillion folks at WagEd (Microsoft’s PR agency) vetted it.

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   Sethness March 8th, 2009 at 00:03

   This is MicroScoffed’s idea of NOT bundling IE8 with Win7? It’s a transparent sham. When will MS stop the petty games and start using legitimate business practices???

   The process for “turning off” IE8 in Win7 is akin to giving someone a car with a crocodile in the back seat…along with instructions on how to remove the crocodile’s teeth.

   According to an article in “The Register”, the “turn off” of IE8 merely removes IE8’s iexplore.exe executable file. It does NOT remove the many other components of IE8.

   Worse, IE8 is delivered in functional ready-to-use condition with Win7– it’s up to the user to go through a process of rebooting TWICE and jumping through other hoops in order to disable its exectuable file.

   TRUE compliance with the EU anti-bundling laws would mean either not including IE8 *at all* or making IE merely one of several eaqually easily installable browsers: products like IE, FireFox, Opera, and so on.

   This isn’t compliance and respect. This is MS peeing down our backs and hoping the EU will mistake the urine for rainwater.