Removing Browser From Windows 95 Is Easier Done Than Said techweb.com
Microsoft, apparently on a mission to make Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's order separating Internet Explorer from Windows 95 look foolish, wants OEM licensees to obey the order and delete 228 files, rendering not only IE, but also Win 95, inoperable.
To paraphase Ollie North, they got their job, I got mine. And to paraphase a former insider participant here, what else is Windows but a bunch of DLLs? In case anybody doesn't understand what's going on here, officially, there's just a few releases of Windows 95, most notably the original retail release and OSR2/2.1. In practice, officially blessed software companies are required to ship up-to-date DLL's for everything used by a particular package/app, so you end up getting this floating mix of DLL's, depending on what the last thing you installed was. It's sorta a mess.
Now, the line on IE is that, if you take out all the dll's shipped with the "separate" product, you get a non-functional system. Well, right, you take out all the dll's included with IE3/4 that differ from the original retail release, I can believe it. Presumably, that's mostly what's in that 26 meg undo file you get when you install IE4, all the old dll's that have been superceded. So, every dll that's been updated since the original retail release is now officially part of IE, Microsoft says. Think the judge will buy it? Hey, it could happen. Got my doubts, though, judges in general don't like being called stupid, and this one's pretty transparent.
Oops, time to get back to the news, see what's up.
Cheers, Dan. |
