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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (19473)	5/19/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Kevin Hay	Read Replies (1) of 24154

while we're at it, to apply the same law we'll have to strip a lot of things out of windows. multimedia, compression, network support, ..how far back shall we go? Most of those things are part of any OS because they perform basic services (e.g. networking). The key differentiator of what is core OS versus apps or utilities is whether it is a shared resource. If so, basic access needs to be controlled by the OS. ====-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-= I'm sure Stack Electronics and Novell would disagree on what a basic service is. And who defines that? Who's to say viewing html over the internet is less a basic service than other network functionality? you say it's defined by whether it's a shared resource. But that's just a design decision. And when you realize that this is exactly what msft is trying to do you'll start seeing what the scope of this is: Having all your apps being able to talk with other apps anywhere. All speaking in html, or data, or audio...whatever. This stuff needs to be at a system level, not an add on app. You naysayers are asking to be committed to jave/html - thin client/server apps. While there'll be a definite huge market for this.. ...already is, everthing working with everything will be way more rich and full featured. Both will do just fine. But if you're worried about fascism, worry about the government designing an os. -Kevin

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