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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1154)	6/2/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Why shouldn't it? well, I can't answer every rhetoric of your arguments. It shouldn't becuase, this is getitng to repetitive, of its leverage of its OS monopoly, where, other companies have successful businesses doing just that. Re: lucky.. Well, this doesn't fly. There should be no luck in these things. I had an HP unix box up for 18 months with no problems. I had a web server, app server, MAC emulation, oracle 7, and a bunch of cron jobs. No problem, not once, of crashes or freezes. It was shut down twice to be physically transferred to another building. I guess I have better luck with unix boxes!!

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1154)	6/2/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

The reason the Browser shouldn't be a part of the OS is to protect the integrity of the software architecture of the PC (which MS is extremely poor at in doing, IMHO). I have had browsers crash the OS. I have had printer drivers crash the OS. I currently have a video driver that crashes the OS when I use OpenGL 3D. I have had many other apps/drivers crash the OS. Its like, WTF!!! What does printing have to do with the OS. Why should it have the ability to come close to crashing to OS. When X-Windows crashes on my Unix box (rarely). I restart it and go on. Non X apps are still chugging away. When the printer spool goes haywire, or I need to change it, etc. I stop it and restart it. It has nothing to do with the OS. Integrating the GUI into the OS was a major mistake if you ask me. Most Windows apps halt when you click down on the mouse and don't let up. I've seen servers come to a halt when they can't write to the screen. I could go on and on, but I have too much work to do. My point is that the OS should be the OS and the apps should be the apps, and the GUI is an app if you ask me. I am not out to Hate MS. I am just fascinated with what is going on with how they can win over and over again with inferior products. Most programmers I know, know that it is inferior, but they have to program it anyway. Most non-programmer types I know don't seem to know that its inferior, which seems to spur the demand. Oh, also. NT seems to run pretty good on production boxes with "known to work hardware". I have used it for on many machines and it behaves more, or less buggy depending on the configuration of the machine. Judd