Re:NT (Score 1)

My point refers to the statements Microsoft had made during the antitrust hearings regarding the fact that IE was an integral component of Windows and could not be removed.

Microsoft stated that the merging of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer was the result of innovation and competition, and that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together and that consumers were now getting all the benefits of IE for free.

A number of videotapes were submitted as evidence by Microsoft during the trial, including one that demonstrated that removing Internet Explorer from Microsoft Windows caused slowdowns and malfunctions in Windows.

Although I completely agree that marketing != software engineering:

Because of the limited nature of POSIX.1, the POSIX subsystem on Windows NT does not provide any support for networking or system security. Many people feel that the inclusion of the POSIX subsytem was really a marketing ploy to increase NT's market penetration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Micr osoft http://scilnet.fortlewis.edu/tech/NT-Server/archit ecture.htm