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You either don't understand or are ducking issues
Apps are not integrated into Windows XP, functionalities are.

Your stretching the truth abit here. MS is the one saying removing the media player app will cripple the OS. Its also widely known that MS claimed to move the applications into the kernel for performance but really did it for antitrust related reasons.

Its widely known that MS refactored IE to move it into the kernel to eliminate the possiblity of users removing it. In Win95/98 IE support libraries were simply included in the system libraries making most users unable to remove it unless they were skilled enough with a linker to rebuild the libraries themselves. Since several folks did it, MS took the extrordinary step of moving the library and application "functioinality" as you put it into the kernel itself. So, now ya got to kill FileManager to remove IE and most folks basically give up (since there are obviously bombs planted if you are silly enough to try).

So, while MS can claim removing "apps" from the OS kills the experience, the user base increasingly abandons Windows as a viable server platform with every additional set of application related security holes MS builds into the kernal to avoid antitrust issuse. Ya see, trust goes two ways and MS has lost most of its customer's good will.
Information access and display are, multimedia access and play are, networking is, graphical display is and other capabilities are. It all depends on what you want. If you want to drive a Model T, buy it and drive it and enjoy it and get out of it what you can. If you want something a bit more modern, buy it and get out of it what it provides. I don't see all that many Model Ts around today.
Posted by: oldskool   Posted on: 03/31/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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here's an idea for security...  ryusen | 03/31/04
Don't forget to..  FreeBSD | 03/31/04
Don't forget to..  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
fyi  michael-t | 03/31/04
fyi  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
what?  V Sanders | 03/31/04
your exception is not alone...  ryusen | 03/31/04
Don't expect much "innovation" until DOJ times out  oldskool | 03/31/04
here's an idea for security...  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
This is fairly easy to do now.  jfrankcarr | 03/31/04
but...  ryusen | 03/31/04
One step I did leave out  jfrankcarr | 03/31/04
"evolving threat models"  FreeBSD | 03/31/04
"evolving threat models"  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
Password protect software installation  Chad_z | 03/31/04
Password protect software installation  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
Perhaps you missed the first 50 years of computing?  oldskool | 03/31/04
Perhaps you missed the first 50 years of computing?  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
I hear you talking  bjbrock | 03/31/04
Oh, really!!  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
are you suggesting that Microsoft lied, and that they can remove these apps  hipparchus | 03/31/04
Not my claim  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
I love my windows as much as the next  V Sanders | 03/31/04
You either don't understand or are ducking issues  oldskool | 03/31/04
No Truth Stretching at all  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
Listen up, OS technology predates MS, that's where they copied it from  oldskool | 03/31/04
Listen up, OS technology predates MS, that's where they copied it from  seosamh_z | 04/01/04
OS Core Functions  gas_z | 04/01/04
I think some of you are not getting this right.  Heatlesssun | 03/31/04
you can either trust the user  V Sanders | 03/31/04
MS does weld stuff into the OS to avoid remedies  oldskool | 03/31/04
Where are you getting this stuff?  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
Not in the kernel ... yet? or Never?  oldskool | 03/31/04
Not in the kernel ... yet? or Never?  seosamh_z | 04/01/04
At last! We have some numbers to show (after three years ....)  michael-t | 03/31/04
Your grade is still an "F" Billy  Chad_z | 03/31/04
MS's attempts to controll user choice is the problem  oldskool | 03/31/04
Some clown released the memo a day early..  Xunil_Sierutuf | 03/31/04
Smells like more DRM on the way...  Zogg | 04/01/04
SP2 addresses all of this  Enterprise Analyst | 04/01/04

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