that sounds pointless! why wouldn't they add it?
Did you read the article?
It's antitrust legislation, to do with Microsoft using its monopoly on the OS market to force other software, like IE, on users.
I've argued for a while that Windows should be made more modular so not everybody has to install everything, but at the end of the day if you don't like IE, it's not difficult (even for my grandma) to switch to an alternative. If a user is really dissatisfied with software they'll find an alternative, the people staying with IE "because it comes with Windows" are in no way being forced to use it.
