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decided to make it that way to force people to upgrade Windows when they wanted to upgrade IE.

Not true.



Umm, you can't just say that. In your estimation, what was the reason for this frustrating decision?


COM is the reason.


More precisely, the way it uses COM.


API design is also a human decision-making process, vulnerable to commercial concerns and similar "evil" impulses. I believe that was even spelled out in the consent decree?




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