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Story: Media player-less Windows finally named

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How's about Windows XPurgated?

It seems the separation of media player is really tinkering at the dges of a more level playing field if that's the EC's objective.

A Windows XP Basic version would be better with ALL apllications which are not strict OS separated out for a Pro bundle including IE and MediaPlayer - with APIs to the OS and its access utilities like DUN et al which are the same for MS internal and competitive developers - as was done with IBM to create the plug compatible market.

Its only what has been done to ensure more access to telecomms post monopoly already, and MS can then compete on the merits of its applications against other developers, which I'm sure it won't mind given the resources it has to do this..

And this action misses the strategic objective of pervasive computing by a mile, or is that 1.61 Kilometres?

The EC should have gone for a clear separation of OS and application - with equal open access to uitilities and programming tools. We also need apps like Office and its competitors to run on Linux and Windows to get the playing field level. Office on the Mac is excellent - with the usual reservations of over specification.

Such competition will yield the pricing, performance and refinement to move the industry forward to more pervasive computing devices accessible to the mass market to achieve national/EC wide pervasive network computing nirvana.

We won't get there locked into the current "DellDows" © solutions of vanilla PC hardware plus Windows architecture, both requiring continual matching upgardes. The current route is a dead end requiring substantial evolution and porting of technology to new platforms and delivery models to reach pervasive useable by all status - and get away from hardware, software and communications selling, to service delivery of value added applications for the rest of us...

............how long, has this been going on????

Just what I think.

Brian Catt
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