I think there is a difference between an OS and an Application and Microsoft is attempting to blur the lines to their advantage. This is not the first time that they have claimed that one of their applications is tightly integrated into the OS. Pretty soon they are going to claim that MS Office is so tightly integrated into the OS that it can't be removed without having reprucussions on the OS. Personally I don't these things integrated into my OS and I think that in the long run this creates more potential security problems in the guts of the OS.
I agree that users want some of these Applications but they don't want them built into their OS. The great thing about KDE and Gnome is that I can remove the software without it affecting the performance of either or causing me to worry about what potential security holes I've opened up.
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I think there is a difference between an OS and an Application and Microsoft is attempting to blur the lines to their advantage. This is not the first time that they have claimed that one of their applications is tightly integrated into the OS. Pretty soon they are going to claim that MS Office is so tightly integrated into the OS that it can't be removed without having reprucussions on the OS. Personally I don't these things integrated into my OS and I think that in the long run this creates more potential security problems in the guts of the OS.
I agree that users want some of these Applications but they don't want them built into their OS. The great thing about KDE and Gnome is that I can remove the software without it affecting the performance of either or causing me to worry about what potential security holes I've opened up.