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Browsers – the chicken and the egg

June 12, 2009
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Ok. how the hell will a normal person actually get a browser WITHOUT installing IE7/8 first?

European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves.

Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer.

via BBC NEWS | Technology | No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe.

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2 Comments leave one →
  1. Stuart permalink
    June 12, 2009 10:35 am

    They’ll use ftp of course!

    Reply
  2. Ian D. Nock permalink
    June 13, 2009 8:08 pm

    Oh yes… most people think the web is the Internet, and would not know FTP from an STD and any other TLA

    Reply

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