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To: Mephisto who wrote (4990)	10/20/1997 6:46:00 PM
From: LKO	of 64865

> CHEERS! Finally, Justice Dept. does something! > It's our only chance. Otherwise, we will be stuck with MSFT's > inferior products, like Win95 that is unreliable & unpredictable!!!! > It is good to see Justice department show a backbone but this may not be a big deal. Windows 98 will have a bundled IE anyway and is probably not too far away. PC vendors probably get "updates" from Microsoft for Windows95 which usually include "bugfixes". This time they may tried to slip in "features" like a new browser into that bundle [ effectively doing a Windows95.5 release ] and the legalese may allow that. Long term I do not think the situation changes fundamentally for Microsoft or Netscape. At one time "networking" was an add-on thing and Novell thrived by adding it as SPX/IPx and TCP/IP from vendos lile Netmanage and FTP software. When TCP/IP got included into Windows95, their market tanked. The question where will eventual inclusion of IE in Windows [next] will leave Netscape ? Sun includes "HotJava" browser in Solaris 2.6 but that is not featured enough to represent any threat to Netscape. Netscape competes on merits and wins the "choice" there. Will that continue to happen in the WIndows[next] environment ?

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