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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (19270)5/18/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: Dermot Burke  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Thanks Harvey.That report amzes me in the details.They did not miss much, did they.

Particularly amusing is the revelations concerning the dealings with AOL.I always thought that was a serious blow to Netscape.Now we know:So important were the exclusive deals, prosecutors
allege, that Microsoft was willing to give America Online,
the nation's largest Internet service provider, a preferred
spot on the desktop at the expense of Microsoft's own
online service, Microsoft Network, or MSN.

The suit quotes Gates as saying the AOL deal was like
"putting a bullet through MSN's head." The suit
concludes: "The browser war was so critical to Microsoft
that it was prepared to retreat in other markets in order
to win in it."

Another funny one was they caught them rigging the wizard/set-ups in circa 1997 new pc's , which my wife experienced with a laptop. This had me thinking conspiracy theory.Way too funny :The suit alleges that is exactly what Microsoft did - put its
Internet Installation Wizard ahead in the boot-up
sequence specifically to make sure that new
computer-users start out using the Internet Explorer Web
browser. And the Internet service providers on the
wizard screens are those that have cut exclusive deals
with Microsoft, the suit alleges.
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