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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (19208)	5/17/1998 8:35:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

No, that's not what I was thinking. (html viewer linkable into- whatever). That's the "dll hell" integration, exactly like Word, COM, the successor to OLE, all that. I mean the business of merging the Windows "user interface" into the browser. So the web and your computer allegedly have the same "user interface". So you can cruise your disk just like you cruise the internet. Except, with the Microsoft way, you can cruise your disk iff you are sitting in front of your computer. As to 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. I don't know what you're getting at. Is "retrieving info" one of the Microsoft definitions of what an OS does? That's not a generally accepted definition, you know, except in a very restricted sense. Utilities are a form of application anyway. I think it odd to call the browser an OS "utility" like disk defrag or virus scan or file find. Oddness is in the eye of the beholder, of course. Like "bundling" versus "integration". Cheers, Dan.

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (19208)	5/17/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Hey Dwight, I just caught your message to the true believers at Message 4492334 Methinks you perhaps have a somewhat distorted idea of what's going on here. Not much point in arguing, I'd say, you and Bill both seem to have missed high school civics while reading the noble Ayn. You and ed want a concise little summary, my favorite is infoworld.com . Not that I'd expect such a straightforward account to make much impression on the Bill Gates is John Galt crowd, but the whole thing is sometimes made out to be more complicated than it seems. Beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, even. Cheers, Dan.