And we all know how Microsoft integrated IE so far into the OS that if they try to remove it, it broke the OS.
So they said (under oath, before Congress), but Mozilla's Revenge did a good job of removing IE from Win 98... if anything, it was more stable than with IE installed. I ran it that way until I went to XP. I would have tried XPLite, which was supposed to do something similar, if I didn't need it for Windows Updates. In 7, you can just "uninstall" IE and go into the directory and delete everything (except ieproxy.dll, I believe; that has to still be there). When I ran 7, that was my configuration, and it was rock solid.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
