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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19202)	5/17/1998 8:08:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

The browser is this huge chunk of code. Well, at least Navigator is. IE on the other hand, has a portion of code that is a "thin" html viewer "client", which enables other apps like word-processors etc to simply call this little thin html code viewer for less than industrial strength viewing. Perhaps this is what you are thinking about when you say, "That is, the "web view" of Windows would be a service offered by Windows, and any browser anywhere could access that view, modulo appropriate security. Maybe that even crossed somebody's mind at Microsoft,.." I read about that at winmag.com Really good article there, and they devote a section to "the browser issue" in re Win98. re That leaves out Active Desktop, of course, which turns your computer into some strange video arcade thing. Believe me Daniel, I'm not at all pleased with the prospect of Disney ads on my Win98 desktop, and I can assure you I won't be tolerating any such idiocy, even if it means a re-format of my hard-drive if I have to go that far to eliminate that BS. I'll leave the shove-the-ads-down -the-throat thing for newbies who are too lazy to figure out that they don't HAVE to see that stuff on their personal computer screen. Word isn't part of the OS because that wouldn't fit into the Microsoft business plan, Sure, absolutely. They don't want to give away Word for free. Not yet anyway. But if Corel keeps innovating and eventually starts making market-share headway, MFST might at least cut the price on Office. I do think that browsing per se is more of an operating system function, rather than an application where you're doing something like crunching numbers or designing an original document to be printed/stored etc. I don't think MSFT is giving away FrontPage either, at least not yet (although I might have seen some ad recently...-g-) But other than chatting, what's browsers used for except retrieving info? It does seem a fine line between application and utility; it's in that netherworld just like the streaming video client stuff. Is that OS function or application. If I'm just staring at the screen or typing chat like this, I don't consider that I'm doing design/number crunching stuff; you know like REAL WORK.