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The real reasons behind Microsofts move to exorcise WGA from IE7
Published October 7th, 2007 in Browser Security, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7
The IE team, for its part, will say nothing more than what it posted on October 4 to the IE Team Blog: “Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users”
In other words: Microsoft was worried that “pirates” might not be protected by all the security goodness the company has added to IE, so it decided to remove piracy checks from the IE 7 download process. Not surprisingly, there are other theories as to why Microsoft removed WGA from the browser. Perhaps Microsoft decided that WGA was enough of a deterrent to result in IE 7 failing to gain » The real reason(s) behind Microsoft’s move to exorcise WGA from IE7 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
