11-26-2025, 03:11 AM
I think the most accurate comment was, "It's in the eye of the beholder."
If I wrote my own program to provide, say, the time of day and the elapsed time, in a nice-looking display, analog and digital, I would call that "one of my programs."
If Microsoft or other vendor provided such a program, most people would call it "a utility."
I guess a way to answer this question is to ask ourselves whether it's something that we would have expected, or at least not be surprised about, if it came bundled with Norton Utilities.
If I wrote my own program to provide, say, the time of day and the elapsed time, in a nice-looking display, analog and digital, I would call that "one of my programs."
If Microsoft or other vendor provided such a program, most people would call it "a utility."
I guess a way to answer this question is to ask ourselves whether it's something that we would have expected, or at least not be surprised about, if it came bundled with Norton Utilities.