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No Truth Stretching at all
Microsoft simply defines their OS and its functionality. IE functionality, media functionality are no more apps now than are fonts, file management, networking or any other Windows function (possibly no different than IO and memory management). Modern OSes will continue to expand and evolve and they will do things that today are not systemically a part of an OS. That is up to the vendor. Your little cozy description that they moved these functionalities into the OS so they could not be removed is quite correct. They don't want them removed. They want all Windows users to have them available and all developers to be able to assume that they will be. That is good policy for users, good for developers and, yes, in the end good for Microsoft. After all anything that is good for their customers ought to be good for them (that's the way business is supposed to work).

You just simply present no data that users are "increasingly abandoning Windows as a viable server platform...". Gartner, among a number of research services, says quite the opposite. By the way, building these functions into the OS is not to avoid antitrust issues. That is what the antitrust issues are about. And to state that MS "...has lost most of its customers good will." is just simply a totally unsubstantiated statement. Microsoft's desktop market share (at least a significant measure of customer good will) actually increased slightly in 2003 and for a company with nearly 95% of that market, that's a tall order. So, find me some data to support your position and I will find you nearly 700 million customer reasons why you are wrong. Do you honestly think hundreds of millions of users sit around whining day after day demanding that MS remove all this functionality from their OS? Yeah, right!
Posted by: Don Bradley   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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