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I use Mosaic.

The browser will not go away. It may expand to include more functionality, but it won't go away. People like "one stop shopping". It's called INTERNET Explorer for a reason.

Hyper Text - http://slashdot.org/
Gopher - gopher://seanm.ca/
WAIS - wais://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov:210//home/wais/wais-s ources/dpw?
File transfer - ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/
Telnet - telnet://locis.loc.gov/
Multimedia Streams - mms:media1csuseduusrvideodemosamplewmv

etc.

The browser handles all of these activities in a single platform (either natively or through "handlers" - plug-ins if you will). Make a new protocol for applications if you want, the browser will likely be expanded to support the protocol (first via plug-ins, later natively). As a Web surfer, I don't want to have to know which program to run in order to accomplish my task (read docs, play games, use apps, etc.). I want to run one program (my browser) and have all of that "MAGIC" take place behind the scenes.

Layne

(P.S. Sorry if some of the links don't work, I'm at work and some of them are blocked. They were all copied from pages that purported them to be working example links.)

http://www.smokeherb.com/windows/


the sourcees are only partial, a lot of little scripts, build tools, code/security/certificate signing tools are missing, 3rd party and drivers of course, its basically just some low level kernel and little shell and some apps sources.

you need a lot more if u wana build windows

check for some deeper info about win2k and nt3.x build and software engineering information here .

good grief!
it's true! not a single screenshot, though... damn

Ah, then you must be the guy who successfully made a computer network out of a barbed wire fence.

There's an interesting presentation on how they manage this here. Basically they have 5000 team members, not necessarily actual computer programmers....

• windows 87.9%
• macintosh 4.4%
• linux 0.8%