Sometimes cheap offers do not last long

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Well,

Microsoft was offering Windows 7 for special discount price today.. Windows 7 Home Premium European Edition (the European edition doesn't come with Internet Explorer) for just 50â,¬.. instead of 120â,¬ retail.. limited quantatiy.. start in Germany: July 15th 9AM until August 15th but only as long as quantities last..

Result:
Amazon was sold out at 9:06 AM lol ^^

I for myself was quite lucky I wanted Windows 7 (currently testing a beta on my notebook) and well.. I got two licenses (one for my notebook one for my PC).. however all online retailers were sold out after 1 hour.. some store retailers were able to keep copies for 2 hours.

And now the best which made me lol: on 2 PM the Windows newsletter arrived in my mailbox: "Windows 7 pre-ordering program" oh yeah -  at 2 PM all shops were sold out.

Great, Microsoft ;)

[James0x57]

It doesn't come with Internet Explorer?!
Weather forecast-
Today: overcast and a 90% of pig **** falling from the sky
Tomorrow: The sudden temperature shift in the core of the earth hits at ground level, bundle up

[Panda On Smack]

Don't think they are allowed to ship it with IE as it makes it unfair on other browsers

[James0x57]

I know they were getting into trouble with it but they made the argument (and I thought won with it) that it was a fundamentally necessary part of the OS.

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I know they were getting into trouble with it but they made the argument (and I thought won with it) that it was a fundamentally necessary part of the OS.

Well, that was valid for XP.. they slowly moved the internet components away of the core because of security issues (the  INternet Explorer being a part of the system core meant if you find a hole in IE means you are directly in the system).. so well.. Windows still ships with the Temdant rendering engine (the HTML renderer which iexplorer.exe basically is the interface of - like firefox is a frontend for Gecko) so that applications such as Steam can still use it. The actual Temdant frontend (Internet Explorer itself) is removed!

[lazor]

I know they were getting into trouble with it but they made the argument (and I thought won with it) that it was a fundamentally necessary part of the OS.

Well, that was valid for XP.. they slowly moved the internet components away of the core because of security issues (the  INternet Explorer being a part of the system core meant if you find a hole in IE means you are directly in the system).. so well.. Windows still ships with the Temdant rendering engine (the HTML renderer which iexplorer.exe basically is the interface of - like firefox is a frontend for Gecko) so that applications such as Steam can still use it. The actual Temdant frontend (Internet Explorer itself) is removed!

I thought the rendering engine for IE was called Trident.

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I thought the rendering engine for IE was called Trident.

Absolutely correct, my fault!

[Lunar]

But how would u download another web browser without one to download off in the first place?

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But how would u download another web browser without one to download off in the first place?

You hit the nail on the top! I for myself will have Firefox ready on a USB stick.. but seeing many users will probably be unaware. Though well.. most PCs are still sold via OEMs... so these PCs will be preinstalled and I guess a browser will be installed then!