IE8 will be removable... ok and?

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Microsoft admits users will be able to turn off IE 8 in Windows 7 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

After a couple of days of “no comments,” Microsoft has acknowledged the findings of a pair of bloggers who discovered that starting with the next major test release of Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 will be able to be removed.

Microsoft officials made this public acknowledgment via the Engineering Windows 7 blog. In a posting, dated March 6, Jack Mayo, the Group Program Manager for the Documents and Printing team, listed a set of Windows 7 features that will be able to be turned on and off by users after the initial Windows set-up.

Mayo noted that any underlying application programming interfaces (APIs) that are part of the deselected features are not removed from Windows, as this could break other OS components and/or third-party applications that call on these interfaces.

Course to us webdevelopers this doesn't really mean anything, as users are going to keep using what came with their computer especially when no alternatives are immediately present on the system already. Likely it's only a move to prevent future attempts of lawsuit against M$'s monopoly status.

But... least it'll be disabled for anyone who doesn't want it.