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Dec 8 3:59 PM EST

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To: johnd who wrote (25946)	7/13/1999 2:37:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	of 74651

An excerpt from the link you posted below. Some have suggested the DOJ should try to force MSFT to "open source" Windows and throw it into this same morass. The effect would be to remove the choice of accountability and control from the marketplace, hardly a benefit to consumers. This is so misguided as to be almost unbelievable. --- "I couldn't even conceive of going to my vice president and advocating Netscape's browser now because of the confusion in the product development," said Barry Starrfield, webmaster at Martin Marietta Materials Inc. in Raleigh, N.C. Martin Marietta switched to Internet Explorer about seven months ago. "Frankly, I don't know if they're going to be able to deliver a stable browser in any reasonable period of time." Starrfield said. The North Carolina company isn't alone. A browser study in May by Zona Research Inc. in Redwood City, Calif., showed that 62% of 209 information technology professionals surveyed whose companies have corporate browser standards chose Internet Explorer. A key motivating factor is the desire for a uniform Microsoft desktop, observers said.

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