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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dragonfly who wrote (793)	4/28/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

For instance, if you were a browser maker and you wanted to allow people to use YOUR browser instead of internet explorer in Windows 98, how would you do this without microsoft's cooperation? The threat here is, 98 ships and has IE integrated. You don't submit, and you can't compete, because only we know the APIs that allow the integration of IE in the core OS. First if all, you CAN use other browsers without any trouble whatsoever in Windows98. I have Netscape on my Windows98 Beta machine and it runs fine. I use it occasionally instead of IE4 to test different things. As far as integrating witht he OS, you are right. It is unlikely that MS will ever publish or reveal the information needed to let other browsers integrate into the OS. But this is absolutely neccesary, IMO. If you let 3rd party developers swap in core OS components, you are basically sacrificiing any sort of stability the OS has.