This is very much my version of the rant, too. Today it would be absolutely unspeakable for a computing device to boot up for the first time without a web browser installed. Microsoft may have jumped the gun by a half-minute or so, but they saw that future coming.<p>Of course, I get even rantier about the &quot;antivirus&quot; companies blocking Microsoft from including Defender (nee Security Essentials) out of the box with XP and Vista, under similar reasoning to the Netscape decision. How is antivirus not an Operating System feature (system protection)? I&#x27;m glad that decision has finally passed and I really hope that people stop paying for the security theater &quot;antivirus&quot; programs that remain out there as OEM bloatware and those &quot;products&quot; will finally die a long, much deserved death.