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   Joe Zeff to Steve de Mena   
   Re: Microsoft returning Windows to "the    
   13 May 12 05:49:26   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.os.windows-xp   
   XPost: comp.ms.windows.advocacy   
   From: the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info   
      
   On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:52:59 -0700, Steve de Mena wrote:   
      
   > FULL browsers, not apps that are re-skinned Safari browsers or proxy   
   > browsers like "Opera Mini" that retrieve the web page on their own   
   > server then pull it to you compressed as a static web page (requiring   
   > you to retrieve the whole page again if there is any active content like   
   > a pulldown calendar window   
      
   And that means that if their servers go down[1] or lose connectivity,   
   you're "browser" is dead in the water.  Smooth move, Mr. Exlax!   
      
   [1]Yes, yes, I know: nice servers don't go down.   
      
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