Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:26:40 10/27/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 16:44:45, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>On October 27, 2001 at 10:26:27, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>I think there's more to it than that. The monopoly concerns are very
>>justified.
>>Windows OSs are indispensable essentially and as such a large number of
>>diverse
>>software makers have developed software for it. However, how and why an OS
>>should have movie editors, MP3-type player/editors, and other non-OS software
>>is
>>unfair competition. People have little choice but to go for the OS, and as
>
>Bundling more and more software with OSs has been going on forever, and isn't
>only done by Microsoft. Apple bundles a movie editor and song player with OS X
>and Mac people all think it's a great move. Linux distributions come with so
>much software it's unbelievable.
>
>What do you think about the clock that Windows displays in the bottom right? You
>used to have to buy an extra program to do that on the Mac. What do you think of
>the screen savers that Windows comes with? Screen savers used to be a fairly big
>business. What about the TCP/IP software that lets you connect to the Internet?
>That used to be a separate product, too. You needed an extra program to display
>a picture on your desktop instead of a lame pattern, and an extra program to
>display vector fonts. You needed an extra program to display any kind of file at
>all; a gif viewer, a different jpeg viewer, a program to play sounds (not even
>MP3s...).
>
>I don't know about you, but I'm kind of glad that I don't have to assemble that
>entire collection of software myself anymore. I don't mind considering it a part
>of my operating system.
>
>-Tom
I am glad that 98lite is there to help me to extract the preinstalled unwanted
stuff, so I can install exactly what I need and nothing more.
That makes my Windows Me run sooooo stable.
Suggestion for the Windows team at MS: provide with the OS a feature like 98lite
that removes all the shit from the bare OS. Bundling that utility with the OS
won't hurt me. I won't cry foul for this.
Christophe
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