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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 486.83-1.1%Dec 1 3:59 PM EST
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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (7470)5/18/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: ILCUL8R  Read Replies (2) of 74651
 
I am a consumer and do not consider myself stupid. But, I remember what a pain in the axx it was to get W95 running without Internet Explorer.

An OS should be an OS, and major applications softwares should remain as separate applications. Making an OS work quite seamlessly with applications softwares can be done with a standard set of APIs.

W98 should not have its IE code intimately woven into this new version of Windows.

Consider the June issue of Family PC's article "20 Questions on Windows 98:"

Question 11: Can I keep using my favorite Web browser?

Answer: Windows 98 automatically
installs Internet Explorer 4.0 --
it doesn't give you a choice --
so if you've been using an earlier
version of Explorer, you're out
of luck: Windows 98 updates it
to version 4.0. Netscape
Navigator fans can, of course, continue to use that
browser and even keep it as the default browser (the one
that opens when you click on a link). If you use
Navigator, the issue becomes one of hard disk space.
While you can remove the IE 4.0 icon from the desktop,
it's almost impossible to eradicate Internet Explorer 4.0
from a Windows 98 PC. (In fact, it's downright
dangerous to try.)

Personally, I prefer choices in my life. Windows is already dangerous to use and should not become more so. Plus, I want the choice as to how my hard disk space is used. I don't want it cluttered up with two different browser files when I only want to use one of them. Choices are important to the consumer.

This is my opinion as a consumer who owns neither NSCP or MSFT stock...
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