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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (23981)	6/10/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Have you seen Office 2k. It is tightly integrated to the web and it does this, no doubt, by wrapping Office around IE technology. Sure. But that has little to do with the antitrust suit. Office doesn't need IE to be part of the OS to integrate a browser into its applications. If they had decided to be naughty, I'm sure the folks in Office could have taken Mozilla's new Gecko engine and tied it just as seamlessly into the Office suite. I don't know this for sure, but I'd offer an educated guess that Office ran into more bugs trying to tie into the OS-embedded browser than they would have if they'd been able to build their own.