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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22584)2/5/1999 4:31:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
As Devlin explained, having access to those IE APIs saves him money, savings he can pass on
to purchasers of his products. Those are a plausible technical benefit of the Win 98 integrated
product which is not available if users are allowed to combine IE4 and Win 95 on their own.
Giving users the choice not to include the IE APIs in their OS/browser combo defeats these
savings for Devlin and his customers, for the reasons I outlined.

Using this line of reasoning, MSFT would be able to bundle any application with their OS, even a ham sandwich.

If the APIs in IE are not needed to operate Windows, then they bear no
logical relation to Windows and should not be a part of the Windows OS.

Not necessarily. There are essential applications that need to be included in an OS in order for it to be usable. For example, the Notepad application is one needed to view and do basic editing of files.

Once you establish this proposition, it follows that, for developers to be able to rely on the fact
that all users will have the full set of APIs on their machines, you must tie IE to Windows at the
design level.

No you don't. You can sell these as separate applications and toolkits with published APIs, encourage developers to use them, and provide the ability for developers to include the linked libraries with their application distributions by way of runtime licensing. This is how everyone else has to do it. MSFT should not have any advantage in this area, and should have to compete on equal footing.
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