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

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (33730)	11/11/1999 8:49:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

And I also have heard from NT users, who say there is no problem having both IE and NN running. So that is not an issue, nor did the judge consider it an issue. What he did say was that there was a factual basis for the following: 1. Running both IE and NN on Windows (not the NT version) created some problems when NN was used. He got that from the evidence at trial. He could be wrong, but that was his ruling on the facts at trial. 2. Running any browser whatsoever could degrade a system where there was a shortage of DRAM or where having the two browsers working at once could make the whole system respond more slowly, and where the user would have preferred no browser at all. Again, this was the judge's conclusion based on evidence presented by both sides at trial. 3. The judge reviewed the so-called Felton testimony (the issue about whether it was possible to remove IE from the part of the system that was running and still have the system function without errors) and concluded that such an alternative was indeed possible and practical. This was one of the most damaging parts of the whole trial for MSFT, which lost credibility when the video tape it presented to show the effects of trying to delete the IE turned out to have been pieced together, so that it didn't truly reflect the problems, if indeed there were problems. The newspapers reported this part of the testimony in detail. It was bad judgment of MSFT to try to pull the wool over the eyes of the court by engaging in such tactics, and they paid for it in the conclusions drawn by the judge. In my mind, this was the high point of the trial, where MSFT exhibited an arrogance totally uncalled for, and it eventually worked against them. If anyone recalls the newspaper reports, they will remember quotes of the judge's remarks that were truly devastating. In short, it was tantamount to shooting oneself in the foot.