Re: Can MS listen to customers?

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"Andy C.(never #)" <acamfield@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1135015682.573446.269370@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Depending on the time of day or whatever, googling "remove Internet
Explorer XP" can return well over 200,000 hits. Maybe the big thinkers
at Microsoft will think that that's an insignificant number, but many
people involved in public relations will tell you that for every one
person that gets frustrated and takes action, there are dozens that
simply suffer in silence. Again maybe 10 or 20 times 200,000 is
insignificant to MS. I'd be willing to bet that at some point in time
the number of people that understand that MS's policy of throwing
everything and the kitchen sink into the "Operating System" is a bad
idea will reach a critical mass.

At that time, or some time before then, will MS begin to listen to
their customers?

Come on, guys, you know it's a bad idea, too. Take a leaf from
President Bush's new book. Admit it when you make a mistake.


IE is comprised of a set of libraries that other applications use. Web browsing is just one aspect of those libraries. So you think your little wish for removing the web browsing function would be granted at the expense of killing off all those other applications? Just because it is there doesn't mean that YOU must use it. Use whatever web browser suits your fancy. No one is pointing a gun at your head and forcing you to use the web browser function whose front-end is IE. That is the advantage of a general-purpose OS.

Fact is, a HUGE portion of even a minimal install of Windows (or even in Linux) includes TONS of fluff that are not specifically just for the OS. For Windows, Notepad, Paint, IE, OE, msconfig, Wordpad, Hearts, NT Backup, defrag, Task Scheduler, and so on are not required to define an OS. Even networking and audio don't need to be included since those are kernel-mode subsystems that can be added later, just like the installable file systems (CDFS, for example, for supporting your CD-ROM drive). But do you really want to buy a bare-bones OS without all that non-OS fluff? Why are you using Windows is you don't want the fluff? Go back to MS-DOS and after the install delete all the non-OS files, like edit.exe, edlin.com, xcopy.exe, mscdex.exe, and so on. You can use a real tiny partition for such a trimmed down OS-only setup. But you chose Windows with all the accompanying bloat that Microsoft adds to satisfy a worldwide community of users, so they don't tailor it just for you.

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