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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (22134)	12/15/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

You know simplicity pays. A good example would be E=MC^2. Microsoft "innovative" version would be about 20 pages. Yep. I've seen NT compared to a Piper Cub and a 747 all rolled into one. "One size fits all," as they say. Whether Larry can pull off his latest anti-Microsoft crusade, though, is another question. I sense a very strong similarity between this scheme and his NC kick last year. That one fizzled. We'll see if this one does any better. That's not to say, however, that everything is honkey-dorey with NT, because it certainly isn't: forbes.com It's basically a question of whether Microsoft can even get NT 5.0 out the door: getting all those 35 million lines of code to work together, and then pray to God DOJ doesn't force them to re-write it. I wonder if they would have these problems if NT were open source. ;)

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (22134)	12/15/1998 1:37:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>You know simplicity pays. A good example would be E=MC^2. Microsoft "innovative" version would be about 20 pages.> Come on, Harvey. You think Microsoft Windows is bloatware? E=mc^2 is just a tiny peep-hole into Einstien's monolithic theories. And so what if everyone has the equation memorized, most probably don't even know what the symbols stand for, much less what it means, what it implies, and what it leads to. Oh, and back on topic... I'm pretty confused as to what the significance of "Can IE be removed/hidden or not?" is. I thought that was taken care of the last time around. Further, I thought the issue wasn't how tightly integrated IE/Windows are, but if consumers benefit from the tying/integration (or whatever you want to call it). With that, seems to me that it's going to be nearly impossible for the DOJ to prove that there is NO consumer benefit. (As a consumer, I, personally, both like and dislike various aspects of the integration.)