Originally Posted by
LtData
IE is a horse of a different color. You can extract it from windows, but think of everything in Windows XP that uses HTML. Any guesses as to what WindowsXP uses to render the HTML? Yup, IE. This means the newly HTML-based Windows help won't work. Also, how would people get a web browser?
Yes, MS used their monopoly to capture the market with IE. Frankly, it was a better product. Yes, there are alternatives out there. No, most people don't know about them or even care about them. They are perfectly happy with the way things are, and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" the adage goes. Yes, some people consider Firefox to be better, but that doesn't mean everybody is going to download it and use it.
WMP is mostly easy to remove from the OS. It just plays media files.