Considering all the clamor in the US and Europe about Microsoft bundling applications into Windows and stifling competition, here's a humble suggestion for items that should be removed from "Windows XP Basic":
It's a good start, but I'd take it even further. While we're at it, let's also unbundle the parts of the OS that allow you move files with a single command rather than first copying and then deleting, along with the ability to move, copy or delete folders with other folders nested inside them. We take that functionality for granted nowadays, but people forget that such basic commands as MOVE, XCOPY and DELTREE all existed as third party software for years before they were finally integrated into the later versions of MS- and PC-DOS. If Microsoft hadn't been such an anti-competitive bully for all those years, we'd still be copying and deleting files in separate steps, one folder at a time.
Posted by: Xrlq at March 30, 2004 11:07 AM