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To: Kevin Hay who wrote (19354)	5/18/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Kevin, Is the government qualified to design operating systems? Is the government able to identify and correctly predict future trends in technology which make these steps necessary?

To: Kevin Hay who wrote (19354)	5/19/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

IF (big dreamy if) msft is forced to split up the os into components the end result will be more expensive, not less. I don't think so. After all, you can get most of what MSFT offers in the way of OS functionality out of Linux, and it's free. Besides, lots of the junk that is bundled is not used by most users, anyway. It's the old 80/20 rule. 80% is not used, 20% is. For example, I got Microsoft Office 97 on my machine, but I never use it. Yet I had to pay for it. while we're at it, to apply the same law we'll have to strip a lot of things out of windows. multimedia, compression, network support, ..how far back shall we go? Most of those things are part of any OS because they perform basic services (e.g. networking). The key differentiator of what is core OS versus apps or utilities is whether it is a shared resource. If so, basic access needs to be controlled by the OS.