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

To: sandeep who wrote (63913)	12/27/2001 1:57:02 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Sandeep, you are incorrect when you say that "that is not correct." :-) I don't know if this is still true, but about a year or two ago, QuickTime was the single most downloaded non-Microsoft software product. It's still very popular, with hundreds of millions of users, and over a million new downloads every few days. And Microsoft INTENTIONALLY dropped support for QuickTime in IE by dropping Netscape plugin support, and didn't even bother to place a single phone call to Apple. There's no way in hell that's a case of negligence or insufficient testing. Sure, Apple very quickly turned around and wrote a new ActiveX version of its plugin as a workaround, but Microsoft's anticompatibility efforts with QuickTime were just another case of Microsoft placing a stumbling block before its users to make it annoying to use products that don't fit Microsoft's strategic interests. Microsoft very deliberately tried to make QuickTime harder to use, for both end users and web page administrators alike. As users of their products, you should realize that you are just a pawn in their shiftless scheming. If you believe that this is just a case of gross incompetence, negligence, or "lack of testing," you are simply fooling yourself. Dave