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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16162)1/17/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Dear Reg:

Mac IE is slower than NSCP Comm. except for java and then it is about 2X as fast. It's mail thing OE is not as good as the NSCP mail which is light years ahead which means MSFT will catch up in less than a year if they want to indulge the Mac folks. It is only 5 meg if you just get the browser but is much larger if you get the whole package.
That is also the case over at NSCP. The biggest plus for MSFT is the responsiveness of the support people who have been very good, and prompt as well, in addressing problems regarding installation and bugs. There is no support at NSCP and there will be less since they are laying folks off because they don't know how to manage their assets i.e. (turn a profit). Now if these guys really object to MSFT why don't they buy a Mac and run NSCP browsers on same. All the whining w/o the concomitant action is just so much hot air. All sail and no ballast. Like the CIO's mentioned somewhere on this thread they want MSFT to imbed the browser in the OS but reserve the right to complain about the fact that they are being given what they want.

I don't care if MSFT never invented a thing they know how to implement and sell. The Mac has been a better product all along but MSFT had the leadership and therein lies the difference. What these guys don't understand is that Gates is not arrogant- just the fact that he has adopted so many other companies products is evidence in and of itself.
Actually HTML is an interpreted high level code and the browser is the interpreter. This is not so amazing. Basic was an interpreted language. C is an offshoot of the unix system. What did all these have in common? In the beginning they were all free, establishing themselves as the defacto building elements of computer technology. The trick is to convert what is free into a commercial package a task which MSFT has been singularly brilliant at achieving.

Do we begrudge one farmer his success because he uses the nearly free elements to operate a prosperous farm just because the guy down the road can't. These guys who whine against MSFT on this thread would have lined up behind Lenin and Stalin in a heartbeat.

So long

JF Dowd

P.S.
Why do you trouble yourself?"..... none are so deaf as those who have ears but will not hear". Is there a forum where one can get some real investor type info on MSFT. This has become the Beavis and Butthead show over here. This is all giga whining on this channel.
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