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

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22061)	12/9/1998 1:10:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

This must have come up before in some measure. AT&T must have made claims that what they did was more efficient, as must have IBM. What happened in those cases?

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22061)	12/9/1998 3:35:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>> code runs 1.732% faster Actually I bet ($5, cause how can I be totally sure without trying it?) that it is demonstrable that Windoze with IE is slower than Windows without IE, on many machines. IE is one big resource intensive program, integrated via glue gun or not. Take a 16 megabyte machine, with and without the IE incorporation, and try running Photoshop on it, both ways. Presumably, the artist is not simultaneously doing art and browsing the internet, so shut IE off. I think just the added VM resource utilization would be identifiable overhead. Or just ask that guy with the 1.732% faster line where his scientific data is for a statement like that. If he can't show the books where the data are kept, or if a panel of scientists like those brought in to help investigate cases of scientific fraud thinks the data are bogus, then you have a new look at that argument by the court, so you not? On the face of it, writing spaghetti code does not speed up programs or OS, any more than random wiring schemes speed up cars as a tradeoff to difficulty of maintenance. Rather the opposite, normally. So the burden of proof would be on MSFT in this hypothetical situation, IMO. I also bet you can bring developers in who have been messed up by IE. However, don't we really need to see a witness list to speculate on what might be happening in that regard? Anybody know how much longer this trial goes on? Schedule? Anybody think the timing is lucky for MSFT, with the impeachment at the same time, or for the DOJ? Cheers, Chaz