> http://www.austin360.com/tech/stories/03march/12/12micro.htm
>
> >
> > Sure, there's a separate icon for Internet Explorer on the computer
> >desktop, Herbold said. But the browser really is "an
> > operating system, not a stand-alone application."
A perfectly reasonable claim IMO - Microsoft could point to Apple's
Trash icon as a separate icon on the Mac desktop that is part of the
operating system rather than being a separate application. This
effectively prevented third-party Trash-equivalent application vendors
from gaining a foothold in the market, and gave Apple an effective
monopoly on deleting files.
This incidentally shows internet explorer as being equivalent to
trash.
> Big news events in January -- the
> skiing deaths of Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono, speculation
> about President Clinton and Paula Jones and Monica
> Lewinsky, and the execution of Karla Fay Tucker in Texas --
> brought more than three times as many users to
> MSNBC, Microsoft's Internet news site.
I smell a conspiracy.
L.
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