Cheryl, as you can read here, I don't agree with this line at all. I mean, Microsoft has already said OEM's don't have the option of removing the sacred IE icon, leaving everything else intact, so why would disabling IE be more acceptable?
Reading between the lines, I get the feeling that IE is really pretty reasonably designed, as application code of course. There seem to be two tricks to the "integration" line. First, every update to the Windows runtime since the original retail release is called "part of IE". That's about all there is wrt. OSR2/IE3. For IE4, there's the second trick of a bunch of os components or utilities that generate html but of course it's special extended Microsoft html. There may be a third component in a special pipe from the html-generating Windows components direct to IE, or maybe that's a "published" interface, I couldn't say.
But, this is speculative, who knows. Maybe we will all be enlighted by Microsoft's chosen expert, though given the course of events so far I have my doubts. I will enjoy the spectacle, regardless.
Cheers, Dan. |
