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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15079)	12/18/1997 11:36:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft claim debunked! www5.zdnet.com Well, how could I resist a headline like this. But, it gets better. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and in press releases issued this week, Microsoft officials said IE 3.0 is an integrated component of the Windows 95 operating system, as shipped in OSR (OEM Service Release) version 2. They further asserted that the removal of certain IE DLLs from OSR 2 would render the operating system unbootable. PC Week Labs' tests have shown that this is not the case. Using copies of OSR 2 CDs provided with OEM PCs, we merely modified four lines in one of the Windows 95 setup files to prevent IE 3.0 from installing. This modification had no impact on the operating system's capabilities or performance. Instead of the install script overwriting Windows 95 DLLs with files from IE 3.0, the original Windows 95 DLLs remained intact. Moreover, significant OSR 2 features, like the FAT32 file system, remained intact using our modified install program. What, Microsoft lied? I'm shocked, shocked that such a thing could happen! Of course, in legal matters there's sometimes another word for such misrepresentation, but I don't know if it applies in this context. At any rate, I doubt this will help matters much with Judge Jackson, or the next one up the line either. Microsoft would likely disagree, but our experience with Windows 95 and recent tests of Windows 98 show that the operating systems are much better suited for corporate deployment without the browser. Oh dear. A little piling on by the PC Week guys here. But, it couldn't happen to a nicer company, could it? I'm sure old Steverino will have a courteous, ethical reply to all this. Cheers, Dan.