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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Keith Hankin who wrote (16418)	1/20/1998 2:23:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Hello Keith, Yes, but Explorer is really an application that is bundled with the OS. Yes ... now you're getting to the good part! When you say "Explorer" what part are you talking about? For example, most all Windows applications are built around a system .DLL that they use called the "Common Dialog" DLL. This is why all your "File->Open" dialogs look the same. This is why when you print, the dialogs all look the same. What they are doing is slowly moving the most common parts of applications into the OS. Or into system libraries. So yes ... it's bundled ... but the question, when you start to break everything into modular libraries and objects, is "What is the application?" Today, very little of Explorer is really the application ... Scott C. Lemon