My understanding is...
...that the warm, steaming heap that is IE is not "removed"; that all the OEMs can do now is exactly what users can do if they had one iota of grey matter functioning: Remove the Insecure Exposer icon from the desktop. The "integrated" Insecure Exposer is still there, just waiting for activation by your friendly neighborhood Trojan (horse).
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)