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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: wily who wrote (23268)4/21/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: Bearded One  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Allow me to interject a possible explanation--

Windows 98 contains Internet Explorer as a part of the operating system. They integrated it in such a way that when it is run, it can stay resident in memory-- the term I saw used was "part of the working set." That leaves less memory for other programs, requiring more accesses to the swap memory on the hard drive. If you don't have a lot of RAM, it could be a problem.

I got this information from the DOJ exhibits, by the way. In the exhibit, this email-writer talked about the competitive advantage gained by keeping IE in memory. Keeping IE in memory would slow down the use of Netscape compared to Internet Explorer (Netscape would be slower because two browsers would be in memory at the same time). Of course, the writer-and possibly Microsoft- didn't consider the possibility that everything else would slow down as well.

I don't have time to go find the original reference, but if you're willing to wade through them (they're *very* enlightening), you can find it.
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