On 7 Apr 2004 at 10:16, Tony Firshman wrote: (..) > >I still disagree. the crux of the matter sin't whether the ppublic > ^ he he that "isn't" quite > the slang "ain't" - 'a' is next to 's'. ain't means the same thing. I > see you two are a few fingered typist like me. I did mean to write isn't not "ain't" - on my french keyboard, a and s aren't even in the same row... I just didn't have time to re-read myself, as quite often these last days.
(...) > > Having integrated software does not negate your position at all. To > not use them, one simply installs other software and let the > installation change the default, which it probably will. Well, what exactly are we talking about "integrated software"? Some thing like Xchange is in antegrated software, since 4 apps are rolled into one. But this is not what I meant. I meant, of course software integrated into the OS. Imagine Word being part of Windows itself. Brrr. > With the massive ram and disk resources and high speed of modern > machines (and these all get larger day by day) surely the issue is > simply loading time and some wasted ram (probably small). "some" wasted ram? I beg to differ. Also, the more complex the software the more problems you will have to debug etc... > I must say, even though I am a tinkerer, I do like the concept of a > fully working integrated system to start with. At least then I have a > rock on which to build. > However Roy has not pointed out that both XP and W2000 allow one to > remove Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player and > others too I am sure. If users install XP they can do that _before_ > installation. "IF" "users" install etc - Roy's typical user wouldn't be able to do that, would he? > Grrrr - I really hate this devil's advocate role. No, my comments weren't meant as a criticism on M$ in particular , I'd criticize Linux or whatever to the same extend if the same phenomenon happened there. > As a relevant sideline - both Roy and I use the excellent Turnpike > mailer/newsreader. This add-on program actually integrates itself with > Windows Explorer! Shock, horror... Wolfgang ---------------------------------------- www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
