Windows 11 still harbors some Internet Explorer elements, even though Microsoft retired the browser more than 2 years ago.

However, the OS developer attempted to avoid those royalties by including Internet Explorer 1.5 for free in Windows NT, concluding in a lawsuit and an $8 million payout in January 1997.

Internet Explorer has been a staple of Windows installations ever since it first got bundled with Windows 95 OSR1 back in 1996, but for the first time ever, with the release of Windows 11 ...