WinXP Gets Democratic
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Yes we are all sick of this fubar anti-trust case against MS. This post won't waffle on about that. Rather, CNet News has an article on the upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 1[^] and the "tweaks" it makes to the default app selection. Bottom line is that now 3rd parties will have an easier time in putting their apps into the XP installation and excluding the normal XP apps. e.g. Mozilla instead of Internet Explorer, Eudora instead of Outlook Express, ICQ instead of Windows Messenger etc. etc. etc. Frankly how this is going to realy help other application makers is beyond me. Woot, so your app is the default and IE isn't. One worry I have is that all these changes to default settings could just introduce a lot more configuration bugs Another is that when my mom buys Windows XP she does not want to have to choose to use IE or Mozilla (she would say "Like Godzilla the monster? Whats the difference Paul? Which one should I choose? HEEELLPP!!), she just wants a browser. It is really only us power users who ever really sit down and configure their machines to a T, the rest of the world just wants to get on with their jobs with the least amount of fuss. I don't know but this move is really lame and I don't see it changing much. All those years, all those millions of dollars and MS ends up having to release a service pack... Wow, what a victory for the anti-MS crowd... X| * And would CNet PLEASE "spell" .NET right. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America), peterchen wrote: We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
I look forward to the confusion it will cause. My only income at the moment is from panicked users of the clueless class, and this is bound to result in a slew of service call$:-D