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Your Dec. 19 editorial railing against Microsoft’s marketing strategy for Windows 95 (“Revenge of the nerds gets ugly”) was not only peculiar for an outfit commonly accused of being too biased toward business interests but, in one aspect, flat wrong.

The effect on consumers of any configuration must depend on the skill of the user; in the case of inclusion in Windows 95 of Explorer, the effect, if any, would be to increase the ability to choose Netscape or any other program available on the Web.