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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (22160)12/15/1998 7:29:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
<What Chaz and I are saying is that Winsock is a totally different type of software than a browser in that it is a low-level network driver, not an application. The difference between the two is important because it goes directly to the point of the reason why there is a consumer advantage to integrating Winsock (i.e. performance), whereas there is none by integrating the browser.>

What you and Chaz are missing is that that low level driver was a major selling point in Trumpet software's primary application (actually, it was the only reason their dialer and interface sold at all). I bought/downloaded a copy and so did many net neophytes in 1994. The integration of this "driver" killed Trumpets app business. This integration was advantageous to the end user, but deadly to Trumpet.

Methinks file browsing is simply a rudimentary function best relegated to the OS as well.

<You keep confusing the terms "integration" with "bundling". While there is advantage to some consumers in bundling the browser with the OS, there is no advantage of integrating it, like so much spaghetti code, into an inseparable mess into the OS.>

If there is no advantage to integration, why is IE so much more functional than Nav?
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