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

To: let who wrote (14806)	12/11/1997 10:34:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>It was just on CNN Doug...that is what they reported >"not only IE 4.0 .... but all future versions too... and W-98) >and they added that MSFT can not force anyone to include IE. >(although, they will probably still offer IE on all new puters) First of all, if you go back and read the Decree, you will see that NT is specifically exempted, so they can bundle IE with that to their heart's content (at least until DOJ files their next lawsuit). Second, assuming you are correct, that they cannot bundle IE with Windows 98 (presumably because Windows 98 would be a "successor product" to Chicago), as matters now stand that will be true only for the duration of the preliminary injunction. If the special master finds for Mircosoft, they can go back to their old, dastardly ways. Third, I'd have to go back and reread their filings, but I have serious doubts that DOJ disputes the fact that Microsoft can integrate IE with Windows in a single product called "Windows 98." Journalists have been known to be wrong about legal issues. Show me the language in the Decree or in the judge's order that says they can't integrate IE with Windows 98.

To: let who wrote (14806)	12/12/1997 12:55:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Respond to of 24154

The following seems to support your statement that Microsoft better not try integrating IE with Windows 98. Maybe I am mis-reading it? "Microsoft will remain free to market and promote (Internet Explorer) just as it presently does - or in any other manner it sees fit - so long as (computer manufacturers) are given the choice of whether or not to accept the product," he wrote. But, if Microsoft continues its current practice of integrating the two programs "in the expectation that its licensing practices will continue to make it ever more profitable to do so, the cost of a compulsory unbundling of Windows 95 and (Internet Explorer) in the future could be prohibitive," he continued.