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But I thought this was a crucial part of the operating system?!
The Internet Explorer system stuff is still there, the difference is that when it launches as a normal browser, it automatically opens Edge instead of IE. (iirc)
Yeah, internet explorer is integrated deeply in places you wouldn't expect.
Which is entirely unnecessary and done explicitly so they can pretend it is essential to the operation of the machine.
Nah, mostly it's just done stupidly many many years ago but MS being MS wants backwards compatibility.
Even MMC needs internet explorer for some stupid reason. It uses it to show HTML files or some shit.
No, it's because IE was just a modified File Explorer to begin with. It was never its own independent software, but something cobbled together from already existing code. It's these constant dependencies that are the problem due to laziness and bad practice.
Look into League of Legends and how Skarner and Minions are a structurally important part of the games entire code for another example.
IE died years ago.
Edge is Chromium.
And yet it's code is still in there doing work. Way to fail t reading comprehension
No it's not. It's Chromium.
It is, specifically MS Edge WebView. For example new MS Teams and new Outlook client are using WebView. Widgets are using it as well as do many other things.
This uninstall will most likely still keep Edge present, it will just be somehow hidden / not as easily accessible.