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

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (14343)	11/22/1997 3:18:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<What is it selling with Internet Explorer though?> Windows 95, Windows NTW, and Windows NTS. <Giving away non-innovative software for free is not exactly a paradigm shift (a high-brow way of saying "out with the old, in with the new").> IE 4 is by far the most innovative browser in existence. Compare IE4 to Communicator 4 feature to feature. There is no comparison. The vast majority of trade rags agree. <Do you honestly believe the goal of IE freeware is to enhance Windows and not to capture the web browser market?> Is there something wrong with capturing the web browser market. Why did NSCP give away email clients, or browsers? I suppose they had a more benevolent reason than MSFT? Why is Sun giving away the Java SDKs?

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (14343)	11/22/1997 3:27:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<What is it selling with Internet Explorer though?> Windows 95, Windows NTW, and Windows NTS. <Giving away non-innovative software for free is not exactly a paradigm shift (a high-brow way of saying "out with the old, in with the new").> IE 4 is by far the most innovative browser in existence. Compare IE4 to Communicator 4 feature to feature. There is no comparison. The vast majority of trade rags agree. <Do you honestly believe the goal of IE freeware is to enhance Windows and not to capture the web browser market?> Is there something wrong with capturing the web browser market. Why did NSCP give away email clients, or browsers? I suppose they had a more benevolent reason than MSFT? Why is Sun giving away the Java SDKs? <It would be interesting to see how the free-market would react to IBM giving away OS/2 bundled with its Lotus SmartSuite. FREE high-quality OS and FREE high-quality office tools -- what could be better for the consumer than that? > I suggested that, but they waited too long. I don't think the market would react as violently due to the standard that MSFT has set. <This would of course be ethical since they only wish to continue to ensure that Gen X'ers enjoy for years to come, the same old integrity and uniformity of the Big Blue Experience.> The red color of the pain on Volkswagons ensures that aunt May's fried liver has peppers on it. Confusing??? Well that is how you sound when you use the word ethical to describe a non-sentient business entity used as a vehicle for capitalistic pursuits. <> As a subtle reminder, the inventors of a technology are rarely the > ones that reap the financial benefits from it. This is due to allocation > of resources. Doesn't this go against the Regimodel concept of "R&D" expenditures driving corporate growth? Why invest in companies that throw their money away on R&D if it doesn't pay! Who does Boeing rely on for new aircraft innovations? Intel introduced the first general-purpose microprocessor and look how they have suffered. In your defence, I believe what you are really trying to say is that research activities such as industrial espionage offer a higher return per investment dollar than a more traditional approach to nurturing new products.> You've answered your own question, so I guess you understand. I would not call all successful R&D industrial espionage, but it is quite difficult for a company to take an original idea from conceptualization to majority market share profits. There are too many entities who are in a better position to benefit from the initail R&D, that have not consumed excessive resoureces in developing it. That is why you see MSFT take other's ideas, add thier own R&D, and voila market share madness. We shall see if that is true with Sun's Java. <If Visicalc leads to Lotus leads to Excel then what is to keep Excel from leading to spreadsheet@www.companyX.com? Microsoft has to establish itself on the Internet or relegate itself to being a niche market of "stand-alone" software products. Sound familiar.> Sounds like you got the message.