Today Microsoft confirmed the determinations of a couple of bloggers who observed that beginning with the major trial release of Windows seven, Internet Explorer, for the first time, is able to be removed.

Microsoft officials made this public by mentioning it on the Engineering Windows seven blog. Furthermore, they went on to detail that other Windows programs will also be able to be removed from Windows Seven, as well. Among these programs are: Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, Windows Search, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Gadget Platform, and more.

For those of you (likely FireFox users), who are ready to remove IE from your Windows 7 Beta platform, it is unlikely that the version you’re using will allow for this yet. The function is set to come in the next Windows Seven Test program, which should be due in a month or so. However, users that do have access to Windows Seven Test Build 7048 (a minority, for sure), can currently remove IE if they wish.