They could use a storage medium such as the tape drive from a Commodore 64
Posted on 06/11/2009 1:30:05 PM PDT by reaganaut1
I could never understand why, if people didn't want Microsoft, they didn't buy or build their own bare bones PC and install a version of Linux, or build their own version from a Linux/unix kernel.
The real truth of the matter is they want Gates windows kernel for free.
“Umm, how is the consumer supposed to get a browser?”
I suppose the hardware manufacturer will have to include one. I’m guessin Internet Explorer finds its way on all of those boxes with or without being bundled in with Windows.
Impossible to secure.
I'll bet that all those bits will still be there, there just won't be an InternetExplorer.exe file to load the browser section.
I guess they would buy Lambda’s
That is from the FCC. LOL
All they do is remove the executable and hide the internal links to the parts of explorer used by other programs to display files. IE is still in Windows, the user just can’t access it directly.
I wonder if Windows includes a copy of Wget so people can download a browser.
POP that Kernel, with extra butter
EUGoobers happy, MS happy.
LoL! Euro's shoot themselves in the foot again. Microsoft finally is able to sell/market it's browser separately.
What I wonder, is what other browser could they buy in Europe? Firefox wouldn't load because it doesn't come with all the libraries and dlls it borrows/ piggybacks from Microsoft explorer to load.
Firefox wouldn't be able to build one either because it can't buy the source code for the MS kernel.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a programmer.
Should have told him that you’d be celebrating his coming layoff in similar fashion.
Liberalism is a mental disorder, those people are not sane.
Well no, windows would look just like dos, or a basic unix system. No pretty browser gui’s.
All the windows apps would just be separate libraries like a Linux library. you’d have to launch each one like you used to launch a dos program in the old days before window 3.1.
The payments are just made to different entities.
Can’t be true. Gates said at the Antitrust trial that Windows and IE were inseparably integrated.
That’s how they avoided the Antitrust rap for the crimes they committed against Netscape and others.
This action proves they were lying. I hope the Antitrust trial is re-opened because of false testimony by Gates and company.
Of course, everyone with an ounce of technical understanding knows that they were lying from the outset - all they did was pull out some browser dlls and put them somewhere else in the Windows OS software.
” Integrated” my *
You have idiots on here that want them to go out of business.
I am sure you are correct. The problems is whole concept of the "registery", active-X, and the directory tree structure since XP.
There is a reason that IE was included as an integral part of the OS, and it has nothing to do with performance or even the browser wars. It is intended to compromise the system for....
Windows 7 is a new OS.
I have and do.
True.
I had a guy try yelling at me here at work when he saw me using IE7. I turned it around on him and asked why he was so emotionally invested in a browser. I have Linux Ubuntu, MacOS X, and Windows XP and 7 at home and at work. I also use both browser types. None of them is worth getting all worked up about.
Owning the standard. By giving out IE for free, and making it just incompatible enough with the W3C standards, and knowing that most people are too lazy to go get another browser, they get to own the standards. Which oddly enough their development environment codes for easiest, which pushes all software makers that want to do browser stuff to buy the MS stuff, and probably full fledged MSDN licenses, and that ain’t cheap.
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