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Microsoft confirms option to ditch IE8 in Windows 7
Microsoft has acknowledged recent findings that, starting with the next major test release of Windows 7, users will be able to remove Internet Explorer 8 from the operating system. The company published a new post on its Engineering Windows 7 blog today confirming this along with other features users would be able to turn on and off in the control panel.
This includes nearly all major components in Windows, including Media Player, Media Center, Windows Search, and so on – just uncheck the undesired feature and it’s gone. Likewise, the features can easily be added back to Windows 7 without popping in the installation disc. Overall, this looks like a smart move from Microsoft which lets them include everything they want in their OS while avoiding antitrust complaints at the same time. Check out more details and an extended list of features that can be turned off and on here.
This includes nearly all major components in Windows, including Media Player, Media Center, Windows Search, and so on – just uncheck the undesired feature and it’s gone. Likewise, the features can easily be added back to Windows 7 without popping in the installation disc. Overall, this looks like a smart move from Microsoft which lets them include everything they want in their OS while avoiding antitrust complaints at the same time. Check out more details and an extended list of features that can be turned off and on here.
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User Comments (7)
Post a comment| yukka on March 6, 2009 2:25 PM | Now I know the messenger wasnt included in the beta (and
wont be bundled) and had to be downloaded. It seems
strange/silly to allow the option to remove things like
media player and IE8 without removing them entirely and
freeing up hard drive space unless they compress down to
nothing when uninstalled. At the same time its nice to have
the option to put them back but will there be an option to
remove them entirely to slim down the install as far as
possible?
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| nazartp on March 6, 2009 3:32 PM | Mozilla is about 7 megs in size. I would presume that IE
would be smaller since it relies on the OS for a bunch of
things. Are you really concerned about 10-20 megs of space
for extra stuff? Even SSDs are now in tens of GB in
capacity at a minimum. On top of that I would bet that some idiot that would purchase the computer from the store would delete the distro/lose the CD and would remove IE without installing anything else first. Then the customers will be complaining about the need for a CD. Mark my words.
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| yukka on March 6, 2009 9:38 PM | standard install of vista is 13gigs? I am interested in
lowering that by as much as possible without third party
software in windows 7.
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| 9Nails on March 7, 2009 11:01 AM | I still want a single distribution media, like Apple OS-X.
It's annoying when I have to fix a computer and need an MVL
disk or an OEM or retail because and all the different
versions of each because of the different ways MS licenses
their OS. Having options to turn off certain things would speed up deployment and imaging in my computer labs too. I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully Sysprep won't make any turns for the worse. And I do hope that the final disk footprint can be made significantly smaller.
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| tengeta on March 7, 2009 2:18 PM | This should make administrative installs effortless, anyone
who knows about Windows XP Fundamentals knows what I'm
talking about.
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| supersmashbrada on March 7, 2009 10:35 PM | I'm hoping to get an upgrade discount of some sort being as
though I've spent 350 usd for vista ultimate 64, a week
right before W7 beta was announced.
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| fwilliams on March 9, 2009 3:40 PM | Putting a check box in front of an application does not
remove or install it. Maybe they are trying to convince the stupid EU that this will allow competition.
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