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To: damniseedemons who wrote (13636)	10/24/1997 2:42:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>Microsoft pulled the "integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience" remark out of it's ass as a defensive soundbite.> >>>So it's like Microsoft doesn't want OEMs to mess with Windows, Exactly where does this come from. OEMs have always messed with Windows. A few years ago, that's the only way you got some of the better features. My compaq comes up saying compaq, my toshiba says toshiba, and they have special drivers for their special oem boards and other oem components, including fonts and other visible objects. Further, you used to be able to get DOS separate from Windows. DOS was the OS, and Windows was a productivity and development environment. OEMs bought dos and even put other windowing systems on top of it, e.g. Deskview, Topview, and others. Including Windows. HP even did it's own program manager/GUI based on the Windows API, and Microsoft actually provided the API to write things like that, a few years ago. This new stance has the aura of a late religious conversion to me. Like a Jimmy Swaggert religious epiphany, it is a dollar based one. Chaz