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Nah! That would interfere with M$'s business model: monopoly + lock-in.
If it's modular, it could be deconstructed, modified.

BAD!!

Better a monolithic piece of crap (as in the last 10
years) that offers a strict take-it-or-leave-it scenario.
They've already learned that an illegally-enforced
mandatory pre-install of bloated, kludgy, insecure
spaghetti code is infinitely better than good code that
isn't instantly obsolesced.

Just keeping rival OSes from being pre-installed is the
single most important reason Micro$hat is where it is.
(Remember the M$ gloating in the memos at trial re
Netscape's chances in the absence of Netscape
pre-loads, which M$ illegally prevented?)
Posted by: dicktaurus@...   Posted on: 12/15/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Very strategic, should kill open source  Mike Cox | 12/15/03
Good eats  rgriffith64@... | 12/15/03
...and with security issues solved..  moiety | 12/15/03
slow day?  ryusen | 12/15/03
Really a smart move. They need to make Windows more modular.  DonnieBoy | 12/15/03
of course  JWatson77 | 12/15/03
Lawsuits a-plenty  jellyclock | 12/15/03
Nah! That would interfere with M$'s business model: monopoly + lock-in.  dicktaurus@... | 12/15/03
Hogwash...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/15/03
Ok  Patrick Jones | 12/15/03
ok  voska | 12/15/03
Maybe true today...  WhoIsDaMan | 12/15/03
IBM never had the Monopoly  voska | 12/15/03
Re:Nah! That would interfere with M$'s business model: monopoly + lock-in.  mbraincell@... | 12/15/03
Cannot generalize based on case studies...  Carl Rogers | 12/15/03
Re: Cannot generalize based on case studies...  mbraincell@... | 12/15/03
I find the opposite  LazLong | 12/15/03
Of course  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/15/03
Re: Of course  mbraincell@... | 12/15/03
Other DOSs, OS2, BeOS ...  MacCanuck | 12/16/03
Of course it is  WhoIsDaMan | 12/15/03
This why MS is on top  voska | 12/15/03
OK, you got us..  Don Bradley | 12/15/03
My Win98 PC had Netscape preloaded  voska | 12/15/03
funny a software company would not already have a group dedicated to develo  JWatson77 | 12/15/03
My Rep buys all my food  fastech@... | 12/15/03

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