An operating-system vendor can mitigate at least some of the potential disadvantages of integration by providing customers the option of uninstalling the integrated application (or by offering non-integrated options to begin with), |
Certainly there are some organizations that find the integration appealing. My point is there are some that don't and they have no way to get rid of it. |
It is clear that the commingling of Internet Explorer and Windows provides few real-world benefits - and several significant real-world costs and risks - for corporate customers that do not standardize on Internet Explorer. |
Organizations continue to view Internet Explorer (the browser) and Windows (the operating system) as distinct products, |
The commingling of application and operating system code does not preclude the developer of the product from providing customers the ability to remove a bundled application. |