Subj : WPA gone?
To   : Alan Zisman
From : Richard Town
Date : Mon Jul 16 2001 04:30 am

 -=> Quoting Alan Zisman to Richard Town <=-

 RT> MICROSOFT TO LET PC FIRMS CHANGE WINDOWS SETUP

 RT> were illegal. Microsoft now plans to let PC makers and users
 RT> configure the new XP desktop to include links to competitive
 RT> software and alter the programming that makes the Internet
 RT> Explorer Web browser virtually inseparable from Windows.
 RT> (Washington Post, 12 July 2001)
 AZ> Assuming your subject line refers to Windows Product Activation-- no,
 AZ> this wasn't affected by this announcement.

Y'mean that there's more restrictive practices in WinXP than WPA and
the unbundle-ability of IE?  I thought that the IE issue had been
covered in previous anti-trust Court rulings re Win95C?

Richard

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