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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (23578)	6/3/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (3) of 74651

I agree with you that Microsoft did not have to do what they did in the browser wars. Management should have put more faith in the IE developers who eventually came up with a great browser that won (or was at least capable of winning) market share on its own merits. But I think you miss the significance of that article to the antitrust case. The article suggests that Netscape's browser presents a minimal long-term threat to the Windows platform since Mozilla is running into serious development problems. That is contrary to the point Microsoft's lawyers are trying to make in the rebuttal phase. The MS lawyers argue that AOL/Netscape/Sun poses a serious challenge. This kind of article doesn't help them make their point.

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