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...intricate dissection of the injunction's language. Jackson's prose demanded that Microsoft stop forcing vendors to include "any Microsoft Internet browser software (including Internet Explorer 3.0, 4.0, or any successor versions thereof)" on their Windows machines. O.K., Microsoft lawyers asked Justice, pointing to a long, obscure list of .DLL and .EXE program files, then which ones belong to Explorer and which to Windows95...
...seemed like foolhardy grandstanding suddenly looked like a clever legal maneuver. The program called Explorer, Microsoft lawyers explained, no longer exists as an independent entity. Microsoft engineers have woven ever larger chunks of Explorer code into the fabric of the Windows operating system in the form of those .DLL files--miniprograms that link PC applications to the Net. The more intertwined Explorer and Windows become, the more fluidly Windows will adapt to the Web--which is why rivals are so eager to stop Microsoft from tying the two together...
Windows applications are more devious; instead of placing their system additions in one directory, they scatter a variety of .INI, .VXD and .DLL files across your hard drive. It's harder to remove these old files yourself; with names such as WW601X.DLL and ABW.INI, you can't always tell what files go with what programs...
Windows applications are more devious; instead of placing their system additions in one directory, they scatter a variety of .INI, .VXD, and .DLL files across your hard drive. It's harder to remove these old files yourself because they have names like WW601X.DLL and ABW.INI, so you can't always tell what files go with what programs...