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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (21491)11/16/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Hi - new to this thread. I installed Quicken99 this weekend and every other screen insisted that if I didnt use the new version of internet explorer (4.0?) as my default browser with Quicken then I was going to miss out on some very tasty "advanced features". In addition, the installation CD for quicken installs IE automatically - it doesnt download it from the internet - so the executables must be preloaded on the quicken CD Rom. Just the fact that IE is included in the installation process makes quicken install take twice as long as it otherwise would have, and then when you first bring up quicken youve got an IE toolbar flashing at you on the right side of your screen. You can get rid of the toolbar but all the new icons are yours to keep. In defense of intuit, there is a menu option to select a default browser which you can set to netscape, but then again you get the "advanced feature" warning when you remove IE as the default.

What is the incentive for Intuit to do this? I know all about msfts little games with bundling from my days at Dell... but here we have a software company that theoretically competes with msft, whats the point? Fwiw I dont think many of those advanced features are too advanced and Ill bet they could accomodate both browsers pretty successfully. Im just peeved because Ive got IE4 hogging a bunch of disc space now.

Michelle
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