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

To: Gottfried who wrote (60853)	8/28/2001 1:28:46 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Gottfried, obviously you either (1) haven't downloaded Microsoft's IE Service Pack that breaks Netscape-style plugin support, or (2) have gone to Apple's site to get the new ActiveX QuickTime plugin. The net effects of Microsoft's intentional breakage of existing web plugins were to irritate consumers, to make thousands of web sites modify their sites to handle the new QuickTime ActiveX support, to require plugin developers to maintain separate versions of their plugins for IE and for other web browsers, and to jeopardize their case with the DoJ. I'm sure that it was very carefully thought out though. Microsoft's negotiating style is that they ask for much more than they really want, in the hope of negotiating toward their goal. So requiring IE plugins to be controlled by Microsoft's ActiveX spec is a nice thing for them, but it may well be just another negotiating card that they have thrown on the settlement table. Dave