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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (14865)	12/13/1997 2:50:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>That is apparently what they will do according to Lehman and other analysts. So unless the government widens the scope of this thing it is a pyhric victory for NSCP et al. They will supply the box maker with a choice of Windows w/ browseer or Windows without at the same price. Now what will the box maker choose? Hmmmmmmm<<< No way in hell. Not only does the language of the injunction specifically prohibit incorporating browsers in future versions of the OS in question (win95), but the judge has an ongoing case. Any little thing they do wrong will not be a matter that takes months or years to get a judicial response on, it will take days. In fact if they did what you suggest they might get that million dollar fine and that contempt citation. If they keep playing games they will widen and widen the scope of the antitrust investigation. This thing is a rolling snowball now, and Microsoft's best move is to run away, not add to it's mass. Watch and learn, my fine young buccanneers. You don't screw around with judges. I have seen some pretty transparent suggestions floated here as if they might have some useful effect. Hopefully for MSFT shareholders the company is not stupid enough to do any of these things. The real question in my mind is, what of value will MSFT be able to put in the OS to make it a no-brainer upgrade decision? I have some thoughts: Multiple simultaneous tcp/ip connects. Word 97 compatibility in wordpad. Incorporate a debugged plus, with antialiased fonts. A better, more modern font api for programmers and font developers. The whole 'direct' API. NTFS option, at least for removable media (if that's possible.) Decent disk compression (incorporate pkzip dirs transparently.) Better security. Better separation of user profile choices. Better QA of drivers from third parties. Take crap like the briefcase off the desktop for those who are annoyed by being pushed around. Fix explorer, make it consistent with 'my computer' ... OH, and shed 4 megs of pork and speed it up 10% Especially loading Word. I'd buy it. Chaz