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To: David Howe who wrote (67481)4/16/2002 5:45:18 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Respond to of 74651
 
I don't think it's obvious at all. Microsoft already has quite a few versions floating around. Assuming a suitably modular design (Microsoft does design its software, right?), a few more wouldn't necessarily constitute the "fragmentation" of which Sanders speaks. Surely there are degrees of fragmentation. How will they possibly connect whatever fragmentation might (or might not) be caused by the proposed remedies to whatever it is that Sanders has in his head that is so scary to him?

Was Sanders even explicit about the kind of fragmentation to which he referred?

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (SM)



To: David Howe who wrote (67481)4/16/2002 8:34:12 PM
From: Dave  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
It is not at all self-evident that the remedy would fragment Windows. In fact it's not even true, unless you accept Microsoft's argument that the bundled apps are part of the operating system, which of course is laughable since many of those apps, like IE and Windows Media Player, are available on other platforms like Mac OS X, without Windows.

How would removing bundled applications fragment Windows? That's a silly argument.

Dave


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