jesus X wrote:
> Carlfish wrote:
>
>>The simple fact is the Win32 platform is lost. Netscape lost to
>>Internet Explorer back when Netscape was still producing a superior
>>browser, because Microsoft owned the desktop, and had the resources to
>>under-sell and out-market Netscape.
>>
>
> I disagree with this. IE is not an immobile object. Microsoft disagrees with you
> as well, hence their using WinXP as leverage to keep AOL using IE, pushing .Net
> for IE only, and pushing WinCE for mobile devices with IE, as opposed to waiting
> for Palm (the juggernaut of handhelds) to create an OS with a port of Mozilla
> (or Mozilla technologies).
>
>
>>To get any market share back from IE on Win32 you would have to come up
>>with a _vastly_ superior product, you would have to market it
>>aggressively, and you would have to not charge any money for it. There's
>>no incentive for anyone to do that,
>>
>
> AOL wants to wrest control of the desktop away from Microsoft more than Al Gore
> wants to horse whip GW Bush.
>
>
>>I prefer Mozilla, but when I'm running Windows, I often find myself using
>>IE by default just because the way it's tied in to the OS makes it more
>>convenient when I just want to type in a URL and go somewhere.
>>
>
> To improve performance, I've managed to untie IE from the OS except for
> shdocvw.dll (I like the "web view" in Explorer), making IE no more useful than
> NS4.77 or Mozilla. Currently, Mozilla is only a second slower to launch than IE.
>
A) How did you do this?
B) Can you do it on Win 2k Pro?
