InfoPath uses Internet Explorer's rendering engine (known as Trident) to display its views.
I suppose that as long as Trident still exists on the system, that it doesn't matter whether IE is there, but I could be wrong.

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Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]
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Hi Frank,
thanks a lot for your answer.
Do you know what happens if there is no IE? Doesn't InfoPath work properly
if so and what happens to the security features?
"Franck Dauch" wrote:
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