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Will we finally end up splitting them into MICROS~1 AND MICROS~2?

Also, splitting off Internet Explorer turned out to be entirely unnecessary, it died of stagnation all on its own.

It died because alternatives weren’t blocked from being used in certain internal OS functions.

Without it would have taken much longer.

It took a decade to die. And another decade to decay away enough to stop having to support it.