Internet Explorer can be disabled with Windows 7...

MICROSOFT said today that a control panel in its next-generation computer operating system will let users shut off Internet Explorer 8 and other built-in programs.

The news comes less than two months after the European Commission sent Microsoft a Statement of Objections accusing the US software giant of unfairly tying Internet Explorer (IE) to Windows.

"In Windows 7 we are ... giving customers more control, flexibility and choice in managing the features available in this version of Windows," Microsoft documents and printing team group program manager Jack Mayo wrote in an engineering blog post. More...

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