IE7 Beta

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  March 2006

  I don't blame Microsoft for being reluctant to put too many things into their OS. The amount of hassle they got for trying to add DVD support out of the box? It's insane. All the companies providing those applications say it's unfair buisness practise.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  March 2006

  The amount of hassle they got for trying to add DVD support out of the box? It's insane. All the companies providing those applications say it's unfair buisness practise.

  
  Sure their no longer able to include Windows Media Player after being sued an unholy amount of cash for Anti trust breaches, soon it'll be Internet Explorer too.
  
  ( love my firefox though)
  
  Intrestingly enough though is, windows computers in europe cant come bundeled with media player, but they do combundeled with bloddy real player. :mad: which is terrible!

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  March 2006

  Bomberman444 wrote:

  I don't blame Microsoft for being reluctant to put too many things into their OS. The amount of hassle they got for trying to add DVD support out of the box? It's insane. All the companies providing those applications say it's unfair buisness practise.

  
  One thing I don't get why people complain about them providing windows media player, a browser, an email clients or CD-DVD support.
  
  I mean at the end of the day if you don't even have a browser how in hell can you go and download an other one.
  
  If you get an OS you need at least few tools to start using it otherwise what's the point really. Every OS does it but also OS like Linux will usually give you few tools that do the same to choose from. Maybe it is something they should consider for window as well.
  
  Well actually you do have the MSN explorer as well as IE, but well 2 of their products...

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  March 2006

  The problem isn't so much that they are bundled, it is that you cannot remove them after finding a replacement. Nobody had a problem with IE beind bundled with Win95 - it could be removed. Then along comes Win98, and the browser is suddenly an integral part of the OS...

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  March 2006

  it can be 'removed' through the 'add/remove windows componets' dialog however, the shell 'Explorer' basically incorporates IE as a browser.

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