Re: Applications are vulnerable?
In Microsoft world, browser and is are very tightly integrated, it's not surprise you can't uninstall internet explorer or edge.
That was only artificially made that way to help them win a court case they lost anyway (against Netscape, about anti-competitive dumping of a browser and anti-competitive abuse of monopoly). That said, it could be argued they won in Real Life because that took so long to get anywhere near a conclusion that the outcome became pretty much irrelevant, also because the fines for that were then so minute that it amounted to petty cash.