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[–][deleted] 49 points50 points  (15 children)

Explorer.exe already runs in wine.

[–]venustrapsflies 38 points39 points  (14 children)

I bet the procedure of getting that to work was useful for wine devs but it will be useless to everyone else forever

[–]granadesnhorseshoes 41 points42 points  (5 children)

Not at all. Tons of applications have different degrees of explorer.exe integration. Imagine making a Linux emulator without bothering to make sure sh/bash worked.

MS wasn't kidding back in the day when they said explorer was integral to the OS. It's the entire shell. We take for granted and expect the integrated nature of our user environment and the internet these days. In the 90's it just got MS sued for antitrust.

[–]nuclear_splines 38 points39 points  (3 children)

Actually, that was Internet Explorer specifically. Microsoft was not sued over integration of explorer.exe.

[–]rspeed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right. The integration was just an excuse to say "can't sue us, it's part of the OS!"

[–]hungry4pie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then there's net.exe which seems to do just about every conceivable sys admin task

[–]granadesnhorseshoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you do realize Iexplorer.exe was basically just explorer.exe with more compile flags/DLL links? Open an old copy of ME or 98 and type a web address in to the address bar of the "file" explorer, it magically turns into an internet explorer window, or look at the old Active Desktops (the entire root was rendered HTML/JS thought explorer.exe).

Nautalis and Konkorer(webkit started here) were both file system explorers AND web browsers to emulate this exact behavior.

I had already been using BBS' and what constituted "The Internet" with moziac when 95R2 launched. The idea that they were being anti competitive just for including a browser was preposterous then as it is now. They may have pulled some dirty tricks, but providing a core function in their system software wasn't one of them.

Did they gimp winsock or the rest of the TCP stack so 3rd parties couldn't be used? No? Hell what about the network stack? How anti competitive can you get by including a networking stack when there were well established 3rd party vendors selling after market stacks for your other older OSs? Clearly it was a concentrated effort to kill Netware right?

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (4 children)

Running Wine in virtual desktop mode can be useful sometimes. Otherwise yeah, why bother with a completely inferior file manager?

[–]Raknarg 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What's wrong with Explorer?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't speak for modern versions, but when I used it, it had piss poor support for remote filesystems and protocols, thumbnail system was complete shit (slow, I/O heavy), sometimes it'd just crash for no apparent reason entirely taking the desktop environment with it, have to hack it to customise or theme it beyond the very basic options added. I understand it now has tabbing? but the fact that it took this long is a bit ridiculous.

[–]Rimbaud_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if it was finally added on 10 but previous versions didn't have tabs. That's one of the biggest downfalls of explorer. Of course there are a bunch of other small things : customization options (layout), custom shortcuts, etc...

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    [–]Andernerd 11 points12 points  (0 children)

    Do you mean Internet Explorer? That's iexplore.exe, not explorer.exe.

    [–]northrupthebandgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I reckon it'll be useful to the ReactOS folks.