Re: [www-vrml] Tim BL Is Baffled, Too

["George Birbilis" <birbilis@kagi.com>]

I suppose its all about naming. Longhorn is very different from XP from what
I've seen in MS demos (still occasionaly freezing demos at the time I saw
them) and from reading some stuff about its architecture. I suppose it will
be using .NET Runtime's classes instead of the Win32 and IE code base, but I
may be wrong on that since I've been reading mostly stuff about Avalon which
is for the graphics stuff, not about the OS integration with the internet

> Yes.  Not objecting to it.  Noting it has to be there
> at least until Longhorn is a reality, and then I'm not
> sure if the same conditions prevail.  Insights?
>
> len
>
> -----
> From: George Birbilis [mailto:birbilis@kagi.com]
>
> think MS did prove at the court that the components that make up the IE
> application are necessery part of the OS and although the IE application
can
> be hidden, its functionality can't be stripped from the OS cause it breaks
> up too many other applications (including third party ones) that depend on
> those APIs
>
> it's like trying to remove QuickTime from MacOS
>
> btw Automatic Updates depends mostly on BITS [Background Intelligent
> Transfer Service] and not much on MSHTML or similar
>

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