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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (16732)1/26/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
<So you're saying that MSFT releases its source code for anyone to customize? I don't think so. Are you saying that your ability to add your own logo or change the menus that the top of the screen is "highly customized"? Our releasing of the source code is not anything like MSFT's IE customization program.>

I am saying that MSFT has allowed customization of thier browser ever since version 3.01. I am also saying that this customization extends from setting custom menus, links and logos to embedding the browser into your own application and allowing your application to make use of IE's browsing and HTML rendering abilities. In other words, you can put browsing capabilities in your home grown wordprocessor, or your homegrown corporate valuation suite. This is done much easier and quicker with the OCX/COM method than would be accomplished pouring through reams of code. Not to mention the fact that MSFT objects have been tested safe and trusted by the public, much more so than possibly rogue custom code that has to wait for NSCP validation.

I am not knocking NSCP, but I am sticking to reality. IE is put together better than Nav, period. If Nav was componentized, they would not have to give away thier code, they would simply license thier components for free like MSFT. NSCP's biggest percieved advantage was that they were smaller and nimbler than MSFT. This browser situtation proves that MSFT can be more nimble than a small company, despite its 10 billion dollars in size.
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