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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (19462)5/19/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: Justin Banks   of 24154
 
Andy -

<troll, troll, troll, snipped, but responded to anyway...>

but when you learn on a dos machine in college the mac looks like an artiste's computer.

Nobody with a technical degree learned anything much on a dos machine in college, AFAIK.

it's true too that a competitor could replace windows in a day... if they could come up with something a lot better that had a great api set which they released....maybe whatever it is would be so good that releasing the apis wouldn't even be necessary, depending upon what this product were to be....

Been done. Whether or not it's sufficient to win the market share needed has yet to be seen. Based on some personal experience with MSFT, they're pretty afraid of the open source thing, though.

MSFT should be free to put any and every app into their os

Until they can change the defintion of the OS that's taught in OS classes? Get real. An app is an app is an app. Just because you call it 'integrated' and link against libWin32KernelBigHackToKeepMarketShare.a doesn't make it part of the OS, you know.

Myself, i think the best model would be if the os were modularized, and the user could go to an internet site and download whatever modules they wanted, by whatever vendor.

As opposed to your previous thought that MSFT should put anything/everything into the OS?

-justinb
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