From: "Paul H. Merrill" <paulmerrill@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:20:18 +0800
To: James Love <love@cptech.org>
Subject: Re: Proof IE4 not an OS, was Re: Bill Gates, the Bully Savior
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James Love wrote:
> 
> Nifty comment by Michael McMain on JavaLobbyCafe@iceworld.org
> list:
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> A friend at work made an interesting point about MS's claim that IE4 is
> simply an OS extension and not an application.  All the DA has to do is
> turn on a Power Mac, start IE4, turn to MS and say "So what other parts
> of your OS run on the Macintosh exactly?".

The MS counter-assertion is not that IE is not a stand-alone piece of
software, just that it is a part of the OS.

(Personnally I can't stand it.)

PHM