Criticism of Microsoft Windows💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️/various criticisms since Microsoft's inception💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️.

Описание: The various versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows, have received a lot of criticism since Microsoft's inception.💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️

Integration of Internet Explorer into Windows
Windows is criticized for having the Internet Explorer web browser integrated into the Windows shell from Windows 98 onwards. 💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️Previously Internet Explorer was shipped as a separate application. One problem was that since Internet Explorer cannot be easily replaced with a product of another vendor, this undermines consumer choice. The issue precipitated concerns that Microsoft engages in monopolistic practices and resulted in the United States v. Microsoft court case, which was eventually settled out of court.💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️

Another issue with the integration was that security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer also create security vulnerabilities in Windows, which could allow an attacker to exploit Windows with remote code execution.💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️

In January 2009, the European Commission started to investigate Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows; the Commission stated: "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice." 💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️The European Commission and Microsoft eventually agreed that Microsoft would include a web browser choice selection screen to Windows users in the European Economic Area, by means of BrowserChoice.eu.💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️

Windows 10 includes Internet Explorer, but switched to Microsoft Edge as the default browser. Windows 11 removed Internet Explorer almost entirely, except for Edge's Internet Explorer mode for legacy applications.💻🔌💾⌨️💻🖱️

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