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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (1752)	12/18/1997 5:02:00 PM
From: TLindt	Respond to of 4903

>>>>>Oh, you want to run Windows? Why is that?<<<<< daaaa....he....could it have anything do do with the fact the Windows enjoys monopoly status with the OS? Last time I looked there wasn't very many 3rd party software programs available for those other operating systems you mentioned? Yea don't use windows! Then you'll have a totally useless machine! There isn't a choice......come on! That' like telling me.....You don't have to drive on the right side of the road....go to Europe!

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (1752)	12/18/1997 7:23:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 4903

Nobody forces you to run IE. It's just a few megabytes of disk space. Why the passion over these few megabytes vs. the hundreds of others that clutter the typical PC? Microsoft is forcing people to use EI by integrating it with the OS. It is becoming (has become), as I hear, and to the best of my knowledge, the default interface. disk space is not an isuue. What is to me, is with each consecutive release of OS modification (eg EI) my system is just becoming less stable (eg, I hard boot 1-2 times aday, soft boot more) In the last 12 months I re-installed win95 about 6 times. Decided to stop installing free or otherwise software unless I cruecially need it. my first home machine came with win3.1. I wanted a PC becuase that's what we learned to program with at school, and other options were expensive/limited. To MS credit, win3.1 was OK and I was content. I didn't upgrade to win95 until dec 96, and for the sole reason of getting a copy from Gates for free. I didn't rush to win95. Backed up my system, and installed 95. Hey, cool. lotsa interface improvements..etc. Thanks MS. Now to me , the OS is one world, browsing/internet is another. Don't want one to depend on the other. Besides, I do not believe MS anymore.. and the concept of free software..etc is oxymoronic to me, especially when coming from MS. Of course you can remove IE. Buy a Mac. Run OS/2. Or Linux. Or personal Solaris. How about BeOS? You have lots of choices. I choose windows for the variety of sw available, and to make use of my time and effort invested in understanding it. But you see, the problem here is not the OS, rather the integration of everything else with it (browsing, TV, washer machine, vacuum, ..etc) Now, EI is a peice of software. I expect to be able to install/remove completely. If not, then I don't want it. The ability to (whether you could) remove it completely is covered in the news.