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To: XiaoYao who wrote (9838)	7/31/1998 4:57:00 AM
From: Philipp	Read Replies (1) of 74651

I run Linux and Windows 95 on my PC, the latter not because it is better, but because there are so many more applications easily available. In fact, of all the operating systems I am using/have used (Vax/VMS, Unix, Windows/DOS), Windows is certainly the worst one, and I don't see how Windows could have achieved its monopolistic status without questionable practices. Bork makes an excellent, well-reasoned case and I hope that the court will break up Microsoft into an OS and an applications company. By the way, I don't think that that is necessarily bad for the share price. From a consumer's point of view, this will force Microsoft to produce a slim operating system instead of the present bloated approach which automatically loads all that stuff I don't want, but eats up lots of processing power and extends boot time. Integrating IE into Windows 98 may have been a great mistake in this context that may well make them lose the court case. A good operating system should be slim, and everyone should be able to install all the applications from whichever provider one chooes.

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