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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (13985)	11/9/1997 5:24:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

>>> I can't speak for O.J., but I think what Microsoft is saying and doing today is very consistent with what they did yesterday. Microsoft obvioulsy knew at the time it agreed to the Consent Decree that it would be putting together a thing called "Internet Explorer." I would guess that they knew that, in order to beat Netscape, they would have to give it away for free and bundle it somehow with Windows. I doubt that MSFT knew at the time that it would be creating a product called "Internet Explorer", with the idea of integrating it into the OS back when the Consent Decree was being put together. Remember, that was happening back in early 1994, before MSFT even really comprehended the threat from NSCP. Gates' vision of the Internet was still as described in the first edition of his book "The Road Ahead", wherein he devotes little space to the Internet.