What I don't get is why Netscape isn't offering interesting hooks into
Win 9whatever. Even Norton Utilities hooks into the recycle bin,
extending its behavior to configurable degrees (from in-your-face
it's-Norton-not-MS to looks-like-the-bin, behaves-like-Norton). Of
course, I wondered the same sort of thing about OS/2's marketing...

Give some folks a choice between better-than-nothing and MS, and some
folks will take better-than-nothing / anything-but-MS (I have a friend
in this camp). But give us a choice between MS or nothing... Now, if
they give us something that MS hasn't even thought of, and you can get
some market share. Surely these guys have their own vision of how the
desktop should extend to other online resources. I can think of some
things that I wish NetMeeting would let me do, and if Netscape did them,
I would quit using NetMeeting and install Netscape. Or Netscape could
embrace UNIX-like functionality (rsh, rexec, rlogin).

I've been comparing and contrasting Quicken and Money off line with a
list subscriber, and am still of the opinion that Quicken is the great
exception, a market that MS can't seem to dominate, even charging little
or nothing for Money. What lessons can be learned from that?

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>From:  Joe Geiser[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Wednesday, December 24, 1997 11:56 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: [HP3000-L] DOJ vs. MS: PC-savvy judge
>
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>As for the judge removing IE - sure, anyone can "remove IE" - hell, go to
>the Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs, and kill it off, then make Netscape
>your default browser - and use it as your browser, there's nothing to keep
>you from doing so.  Even in Windows 98 (public knowledge) - this can be
>done.  The functionality you lose "from the operating system" is the use of
>the shell extensions.  Windows Explorer will revert back to the old Windows
>Explorer, other windows will show just as they always have, and options for
>direct web access, channels, showing the desktop as HTML and scripting
>within the shell are all disabled.  These enhancements are extremely useful,
>but can be disabled by deinstalling IE4.
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