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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: micromike who wrote (13617)10/23/1997 10:40:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
TO ALL:
This seems like a reasonable response from MSFT:

SEATTLE, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Wednesday
defended the way it licenses its Windows 95 operating system in
the face of complaints it refused to allow a manufacturer to
remove its Internet browser icon from the computer desktop.
Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray acknowledged that the
software giant had refused to allow Compaq Computer Corp
from removing the Internet Explorer icon from the
computer desktop.
But he said Compaq and other computer manufacturers were
free to include the desktop icon for the rival Netscape
Communications Corp Navigator browser.
"This demonstrates a real misunderstanding on the part of
the Justice Department," Murray said.
"We believe that Internet Explorer is an integrated feature
of Windows," he said. "We do not believe that computer
manufacturers can break apart Windows and choose to ship one
part or another. We license Windows to be shipped in its
entirety by all computer manufacturers so users have a
consistent experience."
He added that manufacturers were "completely free" to load
competiting software onto new machines, and he noted that
Navigator was preloaded onto computers from major manufacturers
including Compaq, Toshiba Corp <6502.T> and International
Business Machines Corp .
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