17th May 2006, 10:49 PM
Quote:(which didn't provide much of a bonus at all, IE could easily have been as standalone as notepad and Windows didn't get any benefits from it).
Not true, Windows Explorer loads a whole lot faster than Internet Explorer does, and all you do is click in the location bar and type in a website and you're there long before you would be if you'd launched IE... :)
Anyway, yeah, I read that article, and it's certainly possible, but MS's OSes do end up mostly good...