Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Neither of those is going to stand long.

I see MS doing lots of new things that aren't on Linux, tho. You don't stay 
ahead by not inventing anything new.

> BTW, here the one about how the EU may have finally gotten so annoyed at 
> IE being integrated in MS' machines that they may require new installs 
> to "include" an alternative browser "standard" in all of them? Can't 
> imagine that making things better for them either...

Or, honestly, for the users or browser vendors. At this point, nobody can 
actually *sell* a browser, so I'm not sure what the point of not giving away 
a browser is, or how you decide which of the 8 or 10 popular browsers out 
there you should be including.

Sort of like phone company "competition" here - there are areas where to 
call your neighbor, you have to dial all 10 digits, instead of the usual 7 
for calls within the same city. Why? Because the mobile phone companies 
complained that mobile users had to dial 10 digits, and this was "unfair". 
Since it's impossible to actually improve that, the only way to make it fair 
is to make it equally inconvenient for everyone.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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