gigag04 wrote:This isn't true. http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... 07&sd=techmoriar wrote:IE ( Internet Explorer) is integrated into the OS. Deeply. You can't remove it. This means that any security flaw in IE is a security flaw in Windows.
-nick
If I recall correctly, this very subject was at the heart of one of the anti-trust lawsuits against Microsoft. The judge in the case ruled against MS, but the reasoning behind his ruling was technically very flawed (the old "I can uninstall it from the Control Panel" argument) compared to his instructions to completely remove IE. As I recall, Microsoft maintains that the code at the heart of IE is also very much at the heart of the Windows OS, and to remove IE completely from the operating ssytem would leave the OS itself non-functional without a major rewrite of the code. Knowing that many programmers make their code modular tends to support this idea (why write what I can borrow/link to elsewhere?).jhutto wrote: "This isn't true. http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... 07&sd=tech "
Please read the article. What this article explains is how to revert to a previous version of IE. not remove it entirely. I have never attempted to remove IE, however I see no clear way of doing so.
At any rate, I've found Windows to be stable unless it either gets misconfigured (e.g. - user error, trojans, virii, etc.) of the hardware is unstable (not really the OS' fault). I avoid the majority of the issues with IE simply by using a more rare browser (I like Opera, actually, but some prefer Firefox or Mozilla). Not exposing the inner workings of the OS to the Internet seems to make a huge difference (of course, it helps that I have antivirus, several types of anti-spyware and several firewalls between me & the Internet).