>If I have a legal W95 I also have IE 4. Text602 and Tab602 are made
>for users who cannot exist without Windows environment.

Not true. First, the OEM versions of win95, even for version 2
come with IE 3, not IE 4. Second, and more important, there is
that fellow I believe in Australia that has the free program to
remove any version of IE from any version if windows, except I
believe XP.

It was a critical part of the american lawsuit against microsoft
to counter its claim that its operating system would not run
without IE installed. It was later shown how ordinary mortals
could remove IE from windows, or prevent it from being installed
to begin with and  get an OS that actually ran better than
it did before (part of the uninstall was replacing the 98 shell
with the faster 95 one, etc.).


Therefore I repeat: Why would a competitor to MS OFFICE want to
force users to have IE installed, in order to use their product?
Somehow does not seem to go with the spirit of providing alternates
to microsoft, especially, given its incorrect claim that IE was
essential to windows.


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