Bass said:
DCMonkey said:
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Well in all honesty if let's admit it, EU's goal is to wreck Windows's marketshare - something like what you described would be a step toward accomplishing this goal. Really I can see two ways to wreck Windows marketshare:

1) Make Windows suck so badly no one wants to use it
2) Make the competition so much better everyone wants to use it

Actually I would think (1) would be more effective, and cheaper on the EU's part. They can also add in some fines and make some money from the Microsoft bottomless ATM.
And just how is the average person then going to go and get a browser? They don't sell them in stores! And sure, you could ftp into some server to download it... but... without a browser, how are you going to find that address?

What about all of the programs that depend on IE or a browser? Are you just saying to break all of those?

Even without an internet connection, there are legit reasons to use a browser. I've seen lots of html help files, html manuals, html readmes, html configuration pages, mini-webpages embedded in routers and such for configuring them (you could have an internal intranet that has no internet access for downloading a browser on). The list goes on and on about what you would break without having IE or some other browser installed.