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Re: Win7 may ship w/o IE8 in Europe?

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Subject: Re: Win7 may ship w/o IE8 in Europe?
From: Tim Jones <tjmac@tolisgroup.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:15:37 -0700
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On Jun 29, 2009, at 10:57 AM, fargo@rpgportland.com wrote:

Rumors are that Win7 may ship w/o IE8 in Europe due to antitrust pressure.

If true, does this mean that REALbasic's HTMLViewers won't work on a stock Win7 install in europe?

The article seems to suggest this isn't a problem, but it's something to keep an eye on:

"Microsoft's Heiner hinted that some of IE would remain in the "E" versions of Windows 7. "The E versions of Windows 7 will continue to provide all of the underlying platform functionality of the operating system," he said. "Applications designed for Windows will run just as well on an E version as on other versions of Windows 7.""

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Windows&articleId=9134280

I imagine that all of the relevant libraries will still be there, because Windows (historically at least) leverages so much of IE's crap, er, functionality for various things, but will be missing the actual iexplore binary that provides a UI.

Nope - in this case, the entirety of the IE environment has been made separate from the Windows OS to meet this requirement. From what we're hearing in the developer realm, if it's removed, it won't be available and that we should use the "default browser" as defined by the users for web-based content.

Tim


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