<Any good software designer will tell you that properly written software should be modular, and if it is really and truly integrated (as opposed to bundled with a marketing spin of being "integrated"), then it is poorly designed. I very much doubt that Microsoft's software is indeed really integrated, but instead is bundled. The only
"benefit" that can be had from software "integration" is for Microsoft, not the customer.>
So, do you mean to tell me that there is truly no benefit in the integration of the functionality of applications such as Trumpet (winsock), faxing services, calculators, notepad, sysedit, clipboard viewers, telnet, graphics acceleration, read forward disk caching, disk compression, the list can go on. Would you pay $50 for an OS and though shoppign around for all of these utilities or would apy $80 for a integrated (or bundled) package (assuming you don't engjoy shopping more than computing:-)? Do you think they would operate as smoothly as Windows 98 or 95 if they were all purchased separately?
According to your assertion, <Any good software designer will tell you that properly written software should be modular, and if it is really and truly integrated (as opposed to bundled with a marketing spin of being "integrated"), then it is poorly designed.> Navigator is poorly written, for it appears that most of the functionality of the Communicator package are closely integrated with the html rendering engine, which if I am not mistaken is basically what a core borwser is. |
