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		lenkite on March 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the fir... "So basically nothing" Umm..no. IE could now be un-installed on Windows. After various settlement fines in the US with several parties, the EU took it further and also leveraged its largest anti-trust penalty of that era. (~1 billion) Microsoft were forced to share ALL their earlier private computing API's as open specs. MS word, excel formats, SMB, etc. This was amazing and resulting in several OSS libraries.

krisgenre on March 17, 2021 [–]

>>IE could now be un-installed on Windows.

Why is this important?

disgruntledphd2 on March 17, 2021 | | [–]

And I was never able to make it actually work. Like the whole system became much more unstable if you did uninstall IE.

That being said, I didn't know much about computers back then, so I probably messed up somewhere.

lenkite on March 17, 2021 | | [–]

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