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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (17516)	2/16/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 24154

We've heard repeatedly that MSFT boxes you into their proprietary ActiveX, DCOM, etc as soon as you buy their systems. No, Alan, the claim is that if you use ActiveX, DCOM, etc. you are locked into MSFT. That's not quite the same thing, is it? You can still set up your computer any way you want, as long as you're not an OEM. Do you want to dig up an article where somebody claimed Microsoft forced you to use ActiveX? I'm sure they'd like to. Microsoft certainly promotes ActiveX & DCOM, and used to claim they were "open". I'm glad these guys had good experience with NT reliability; many others haven't. It certainly does beat the integrity and uniformity of the Windows95 experience, though. Cheers, Dan.

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