On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 12:25, Bill Davidson wrote: > Actually, I believe that M$ might have tied in the code for IE with > windoze so that they could say 'See, look what happens when you remove > IE'. They think everyone is dumb and they can just paint their own picture > of how things are and that's the way it will be. Of course that's their > problem and they'll have to rework windoze if that's in fact true. I think > it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop shipping windoze. > > Bill > > ----
They did tie it in, this is true. But even that part of their own approach was screwed up, because the Internet Exploiter was indeed removeable, even without access to the source code, partly because they never expected anybody to get access to that. Shane Brooks proved the removeability of IE quite some time ago: http://www.98lite.net/ I have been using 98lite for winblows customers for quite some time. I still use it if for some reason I need access to native winblows, which occurs less and less every month that goes by. What people need to realize is that there are liars, damn liars, and Microsoft marketing reps. Windoze is a product of posturing, perception, and ignorance; in short, marketing. As such, there is vanishing little of technical value in their OS. You will see more lies in court as M$ defends itself than you will ever see anywhere else. This includes the removability issue surrounding Internet Exploiter. I recommend the following book: Barbarians Led by Bill Gates ISBN 0-8050-5754-4 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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