[Am-info] MS says impossible to remove IE ?

[Gene Gaines]

>From Dave Farber's IP list.

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Monday, April 29, 2002, 10:42:26 AM, David wrote:


> -----Original Message-----
> From: judson <judson@flash.net>
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:39:34 
> To: dave <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
> Subject: Impossible?

> 'MS says impossible to remove IE without breaking Windows....'



> All last week the handsomely paid executives asserted once more (under 
> oath!) that Internet Explorer, for example, CANNOT BE REMOVED from 
> Windows without causing disaster. This, however, is a crock.

> There is in fact an Australian Web site that gives away a program for 
> doing just that. (They sell higher-powered versions that do more, but 
> this isn't the point.) Anyone visiting the 98lite.net 
> <http://www.98lite.net/> site can download software that neatly and 
> cleanly excises everything Microsoft says you can't remove. [NOTE: be 
> sure you use "net," not "com." For more info visit here 
> <http://www.98lite.net/scam.html>.] What's more, savvy Windows users 
> have been doing this for years, even without the helpful app from _98_lite:

>     "I've set-up 2 PCs few years ago with 98Lite and they work
>     perfectly. To get an idea, an old Pentium 75 is running faster with
>     98Lite than a 133 CPU with W98+IE. The browser is now Opera, and
>     it's totally fine. I never understood why this incredible product
>     doesn't get more attention."



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