Having IE pre installed is a necessary. How do you use the internet with nothing installed?
What's next? We're going to force shipping cars without wheels. It's unfair to decide what brand people should use without their consent.
What's next? We're going to force shipping cars without wheels. It's unfair to decide what brand people should use without their consent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Having IE preinstalled was not necessary; OEMs could have (and some did) preinstall other browsers. What happened was that Microsoft decided to base unrelated parts of Windows on IE so that their browser would have to be preinstalled (Windows would not function without it). There was top-level direction on that decision and it was not actually motivated by a specific technical need.
Of course, that ended not too long ago. While having IE was necessary to hit the web, it immediately presented the choices available.
It's like the one hundreds question the first time you opened the windows media player. Why can't I play my music???
Evidently, you can use a CD or 100 floppy disks. But not necessary because IE is the best tool in the world for installing Chrome and Mozilla.