News - UK Windows 7 pre-orders begin tomorrow, will you be placing an order?

[Output]

Lets say for example I only have 1 PC in my house and my hard drive breaks so I buy a new one along side Windows 7 to install fresh on the new drive. Then what? Where would I get a copy of a browser from? I would have no option to recover my PC as the recovery partition would be lost on the broken hard drive. I would be forced to install an illegal copy of another operating system such as Vista just to put Firefox on a USB drive? What if you don't have a USB drive? There are many factors that make this flawed. The people driving Microsoft to remove IE from Windows were fools.

A Linux LiveCD would probably be the quickest way to boot up and download the browser to the USB drive. As for what if people didn't have a USB drive, there's always other types of removable media such as MicroSD cards etc. (assuming you have the reader) that people might have.

[dexta211]

Wouldn't windows update show IE8 as an optional update to remedy this?

[watercooled]

I think I remember hearing they might include instructions in the pack on how to download IE through command line, using FTP.