Dale

But defrag is a logical product for inclusion as part of the operating system
while Media Player, which they do include, is not so clearly an operating
system function.

Really, I see the problem as the fact that probably 90% of users never
defrag their drives. Therefore there's no financial return expected by
offering a fully functional defrag.

As an example, consider the situation wtih anti-virus software. Only
recently, since more and more people are getting smarter about buying and
using their anti-virus has Microsoft suddenly jumped into that market.
Microsoft certainly isn't worried about legal ramifications in selling their
own, even if their own model blocks the competition. Just like anti-virus,
if large enough numbers of users actually used the disk defragmenter,
Microsoft would build their own more robust version.

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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"Jeff Gaines" wrote:

> On 30/11/2006 in message <eqby03HFHHA.4844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl> Chad
> Harris wrote:
>
> >You can't expect MSFT financially or legally to ship a defrag utility that
> >compares with companies who make them and they won't and don't.
>
> Thanks for the links. I didn't expect MS to distribute a full blown
> commercial de-fragger, it would be another opportunity for the competition
> authorities!
>
> I was surprised to be pointed to a non-existent icon in Control Panel
> though, nobody has commented on this.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines
>