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Your position is not right. Microsoft should be able to make software the way they want to. Most customers want a turn-key OS with all the extras because it's easier - which is the reason Microsoft includes everything. It also works very well from a performance and reliability standpoint. I have been running XP for a couple of years now and have had not one crash - the only restarts are from requirements related to updating or adding new applications.

For those of you who want third party versions, download them. Complaints about disk space issues are rather quaint with the common use of 80G+ units.
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Microsoft bigger than European States  Nigel Johnstone | 06/27/04
The User Agreement Stinks  ParadigmOdyssey | 06/27/04
Pitpropping  pj-xmesh | 06/27/04
EU may struggle on this one  Fred Fredrickson | 06/27/04
Microsoft would have fought that "tooth and nail" also...  Plain Logic | 06/27/04
Of course  Fred Fredrickson | 06/27/04
its all about the APIs ... how can a real OS keep 'em secret?  oldskool | 06/27/04
You mean like UNIX, AIX, Solaris, etc????  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
Yes, likely he does  IT_User | 06/29/04
mandates  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
But, Why....  hal9000mx | 06/28/04
Not at all...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
But how...  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
i think  eLurker | 06/28/04
I think you've missed mine  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
It's so simple  Rick_K | 06/28/04
download them?  samp_z | 06/28/04
Government Regulation Better Than Free Markets?  P. Douglas | 06/28/04
Spot on post!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
You Are Correct  P. Douglas | 06/28/04
Proof Money can buy just about anything...  realitycheck101 | 06/27/04
A sad day for justice, indeed (NT)  Brasonte | 06/28/04
Not at all  IT_User | 06/28/04
Why's that? (NT)  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
US is losing...  hal9000mx | 06/28/04
uh ... just to be clear  eLurker | 06/28/04
At last some common sense...  Mike Cox | 06/27/04
8.6 - "unbiased figures from Microsoft" is a classic  Plain Logic | 06/27/04
8.2 "words cannot ilustrate it"- Nor can they scape the walls from the BS..  Xunil_Sierutuf | 06/27/04
8.8  el1jones | 06/28/04
MS must use a different definition of choice;-)  Richard Flude | 06/27/04
MS Double-speak  Fred Fredrickson | 06/27/04
Or you do  seosamh_z | 06/28/04
MICROSOFT MUST BE CRUSHED  Jeff Spicoli | 06/27/04
Your opinion is just that - "spicioli"  Ardian Daka | 06/28/04
Good, so when Linux wipes out MS desktop monopoly...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 06/27/04
hA hA Ha Ha hA hA  PmAc_z | 06/28/04
Comedy? Don't give up your day job.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
The court's in session...  amicus_curious | 06/28/04
Not much news, but what's Monti doing?  Anton Philidor | 06/28/04
Umm, trying to save face?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
Chicken Little Scenario...  MacCanuck | 06/28/04
OR, the EU commision is just plain wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
Please clarify Bit/No Axe...  MacCanuck | 06/28/04
The EU will be crushed  FilledOut | 06/28/04
And in other news....  B.O.F.H. | 06/28/04
Ah, so there is competition and the EU commision needs to drop it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/04
I like your thinking!  B.O.F.H. | 06/28/04
Sheesh  rapson | 06/28/04

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