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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wily who wrote (23415)	6/13/1999 3:57:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Why does MS find it necessary to disable the uninstall feature when something screws up with the browser. I think you're seeing one of the results of lawyer-mediated decisions. It wouldn't help their legal argument that the browser is an integral part of the OS if it were possible to delete it in the same way a normal program can be deleted. There was never a good technical reason for tying the browser so closely with the OS, but they had to do it to get past the '95 consent decree. The beta versions had an uninstall program (which, by the way, did not work very well with NT), but that's an example of the good technical argument winning the day over the legal argument.