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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: JBTFD who wrote (33671)	11/10/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Can someone explain to me why Internet support has to be within the operating system? I am using Windows 95 with a separate stand alone browser and it works fine. Why does it have to be part of the operating system? The browser really doesn't. Legally, the integration gave Microsoft a better position because of the consent decree they had signed in '95 to end the previous antitrust case. That decree gave them wide latitude in adding technologies to Windows. By making IE part of Windows rather than a separate product, they gained a stronger legal position against a suit of this kind. Other aspects of "Internet support" (TCP/IP, PPP and more) have always been long of various operating systems, as others have pointed out. There are some technical advantages to integrating the browser control as well. When you open the "My Computer" icon, you're actually looking at an IE window. The new help system also uses the browser control that is in the OS. Oh. And they did write a better browser in addition to all the other things they did.

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