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To: drmorgan who wrote (13170)	10/13/1997 5:45:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	of 24154

Derek, contained in your link: news.com By building IE 4.0 into Windows, Microsoft hopes to make the browser just another utility that comes with the operating system. That integration won't truly happen until Microsoft ships Windows 98 next year, but the release of IE 4.0 for Windows 95 is a major step in that direction. Now I know I won't even experiment with installing IE4 into my Windows boxes! IE3 was pushy enough. I'm not up for an involuntary OS surgery, and I don't need my browser reporting on me, thank you very much. I bet this keeps a lot of companies from going for Windows 98 short term. Gonna be a lot of wait-and-see going on. The corporate IS types I know will be frightened by such a change and by all the security hole rumors. It's a bit confusing. Just a week or two ago they had an article seeming to be Microsoft PR leak that announced they were unbundling IE4 from Windows 98. Have they gotten the high sign from somewhere not to worry about the bundling issue? Was the bundling before a different level of integration, and is something less totally integrated (taking over the gui and networking totally) going on here? Maybe this is just yet another test balloon. If they don't get it shot down, then they actually do it? I have never gotten an answer to what Windows 98 would be for, if not the browser integration. There just don't seem to be any other major feature changes or improvements. The TV thing, yes. But you can get TV in a window from a dozen providers now. Not if microso9ft bundles it with the OS maybe. Chaz

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