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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
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To: Bearded One who wrote (1446)12/15/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
1) Having two browsers is confusing to many users and raises technical-support costs.

And that should be illegal?

2) Even if you designate Netscape as your primary browser, certain things in Win98 are hard-coded to run IE 4.0 no matter what.

Correct, because they need to make sure they have certain browser functionality available for OS and other appplication functions. The only other option would be to force other browsers to conform to their interfaces, and people would cry even harder about that.

3) "Integration" is a meaningless buzzword that nobody here can define in a way favorable to Microsoft. Felten showed that, with a few changes, you can replace IE with Netscape in every instance. His analogy was apt: "Microsoft gives you a screwdriver, but then they glue it to your hand."

Felton didn't show that at all. He showed you could basically hide portions of IE so it did not function. HTML display and other IE functionality was still available, and MUST be available for other applications and OS features.

4) The browser is a separate application (read the Microsoft dictionary). File Manager is a GUI for a traditional operating system activity--access to files, and thus appropriate for inclusion in an OS.

Ok, how about network access, such as a TCP/IP stack? Certainly this isn't a "traditional OS activity".
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