Nothing has changed from what I have now in Windows98.The concession is
to allow any non-Microsoft apps on the desktop.Up until this,Microsoft
wanted to keep everything out which they did not choose.
�yvind Berg wrote:
>
> From the Register [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20327.html]
>
> "Microsoft hooked the rotting corpse of Netscape to a drip feed today by
> almost - shock, horror - agreeing with a court that said it had done Bad
> Things. The company statement simply repeats what the appeals court said
> rather than saying the appeals court was right, but a whole bunch of
> stuff it had previously insisted was non-negotiable and technically
> impossible is now going to roll with XP.
>
> And it'll apply to previous operating systems, not that previous
> operating systems will survive much beyond December, if Redmond has its
> way. Today's statement essentially (and cynically) splits Internet
> Explorer out from Windows again. Exquisitely, you'll recall, the very
> appeals court that Microsoft is now doing obeisance to is the one that
> ruled that Microsoft did have the right to integrate IE with Windows. If
> Microsoft hadn't insisted that it could do this very thing, the DoJ
> antitrust action might very well not have hit it with quite the enraged
> velocity it did. This is a very, very weird legal action, and it's
> getting weirder."
>
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