Quote - Can I ask mainly BB, but also IsaoShi, if in the future these dependencies will be removed so that I can run 2010 on my machine that will not be reliant on third party applications, or allowed to access the need of IE?

I don't have 2010 so I cannot answer your question.
Anyway, any software that I do doesn't depend on other apps, IE, DirectX, OpenGL or the Windows version (it can work on Windows 95 too) and re-doing the user interface it can work on Linux.

Stupidity also evolves!