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To: damniseedemons who wrote (13632)	10/24/1997 1:50:00 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

In my considered opinion Microsoft pulled the "integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience" remark out of its ass as a defensive soundbite. It's bullshit, Sal. Do you think for a minute that your configuration and mine have any uniformity? Does deleting IE or the MSN icon from my machine compromise Windows' integrity? A simple visit to the Control Panel should answer that question. One of Windows' strengths is it's flexibility as a platform...now, all of a sudden, Microsoft is telling us how we must honor their dictates concerning "uniformity and integrity?" What Microsoft is saying that they want to control the desktop...all of it, regardless of the computer-manufacturer's or customer's wishes.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (13632)	10/24/1997 1:55:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Oh dear, Sal, am I hurting the feelings of Mighty Microsoft, and you too, by not properly respecting the sanctity of the Windows Experience? Am I thus, like Scott McNealy and others in the Ilk Conspiracy, forever doomed for my apostacy and heresy? We've seen it stated here, both in press accounts and by participants, that Compaq removing the holy IE icon from the desktop constitutes tearing Windows apart and picking the pieces you want out of it. I find that patently ridiculous, but I obviously don't share your reverence for Mr. Gates and company. Oh, and on the issue of disk real estate and removing IE: Q. Why has Compaq, to your knowledge, not considered Netcaster today as an alternative to Internet Explorer 4.0? A. I would say that the major reason that Compaq hasn't is because the category of browser is now fulfilled with the Internet Explorer product which will be a part of the Microsoft operating system. Therefore, Compaq will get this as part of the operating system code and that category will be filled. So therefore we would not have to go out and negotiate something separately and potentially pay some fees, and also take up additional real estate on our hard drive. Got that, Mr. legal precision? Compaq doesn't feel like include ?Netcaster? (presumably Nav/Communicator) because it would take up extra disk real estate. It doesn't say anywhere, anything about Compaq deleting anything besides the IE icon, to make room for Navigator. Sheesh. As to the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience, I'd say it has nothing to do with any normal interpretation of those words, and everything to do with "killing Netscape", plus preserving the sacred Windows Desktop for the Active Experience of Things to Come. I got to dig up an article from yesterday's NYT on the sacred iconography of the Windows desktop. Cheers, Dan, albeit somewhat sardonically.