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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (1108)	6/1/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

ROFL!! You can start whacking pieces off of the OS until it looks like a stick man, and as long as you leave enough to support basic services you can load it all back up again. You can even run the OS without keyboard services, and it won't crash the system. Does that mean that the keyboard support is a separate program? This is some pretty silly stuff. There used to be some real programmers on this thread.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (1108)	6/1/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

So the OS CAN exist w/o the browser, contrary to BG's claims? You can stop the explorer process and the OS runs along fine. You just don't have any desktop user interface at all (Start Menu, Desktop, etc. are gone). System services and running applications are not affected (unless they were using Explorer at the time). So, Gates' claims are correct - the basic functionality of the OS is changed without Explorer (if you consider desktop UI base functionality).