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

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (15088)	12/19/1997 5:45:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Did Bill Gates Overplay His Hand? zdnet.com I expect to see Microsoft retrench significantly in the next few days and offer a REAL Windows 95 without the IE browser enabled. Microsoft knows it screwed up by mocking the court order, and already Brad Chase is giving evidence that Microsoft "wants" to comply - it only needs guidance from the judge as to what is "proper". Article in today's Wall Street Journal.

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (15088)	12/19/1997 8:12:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<Happen to be out pricing software: Office97 Upgrade minimum $218+ Corel Upgrade $179 Lotus SmartSuite Upgrade $149 How can Reg say they have the cheapest office products? What am I missing here?> Compare the IBM DB@ to SQL server. Compare the content and fucitonality of the packages that you just listed. Benz's cost more than Hyumdai's as well:-) Compare the vialbility fo customer support of the two companies (It appears as if their is some doubt that COSFF may make it - read news.com)

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (15088)	12/19/1997 8:46:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Corporation Tel 425 882 8080 One Redmond Way Telex 160520 Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Fax 425 936 7329 Re: Recent Court Ruling Dear Microsoft OEM Customer: On December 11, 1997 Microsoft received a preliminary order from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia concerning our licensing of Windows 95 to computer manufacturers. We wish to assure you that you may continue to preinstall Windows 95 as you have been planning. The order is directed at Microsoft, not at you, and therefore it need not affect your product plans. The court's order states that Microsoft may not license Windows 95 "on the condition, express or implied, that the licensee also license and preinstall any Microsoft Internet browser software (including Internet Explorer 3.0 [or] 4.0.)" Therefore, you may preinstall Windows 95 with or without the Internet Explorer portion of the operating system. As you may know, in September 1997 we provided you with the latest updates to Windows 95, including Internet Explorer 4.0, in the form of the "Updated Windows Features" Supplement. In accordance with the court's order, you are not required to use this Supplement in any way (but you are free to do so if you would like). Next week we will send you two new updates: the December 1997 Supplement (which will include Internet Explorer 4.01 and other Windows 95 updates), and OSR 2.5 (which contains all of Windows 95, including Internet Explorer 4.01 and other updates). Again, under the court's order, you are free to use or not use these updates, as you wish. The court's order also affects OEM Service Release 2.0, the version of Windows 95 that Microsoft made available to you in August 1996. OSR 2.0 includes Internet Explorer 3.0. In accordance with the court's order, you are no longer required to install the Internet Explorer 3.0 portion of the operating system when preinstalling OSR 2.0. The court has defined Internet Explorer 3.0 to consist of "the software code that Microsoft itself now separately distributes at retail as 'Internet Explorer 3.0.'" Therefore, if you wish to use OSR 2.0 without Internet Explorer 3.0 in your customer systems, you may delete the set of OSR 2.0 files that make up Internet Explorer 3.0 in the retail channel. Attachment A to this letter contains a list of these Internet Explorer 3.0 files. (Under the court's order, the options available to you are to preinstall OSR 2.0 in its entirety or to install all of OSR 2.0 except for Internet Explorer 3.0 as defined by the court. You may not elect to install only selected portions of Internet Explorer 3.0.) Our tests indicate that if you elect to preinstall OSR 2.0 without Internet Explorer 3.0 the resulting program will not boot and the program will be deficient in other ways (because OSR 2.0 was designed and developed on the assumption that Internet Explorer 3.0 is an integral part of the operating system). Although not required to do so by the court's order, we would also like to provide you with a version of Windows 95 from which Internet Explorer can be removed with less damage to the operating system. Therefore, we will waive the usual contractual requirement that you preinstall the latest version of Windows 95. If you would like, you may use the original version of Windows 95 (Build 950.6) from the summer of 1995, which is less reliant upon Internet Explorer than is OSR 2.0. Build 950.6 is the version of Windows 95 that is currently available in the retail channel, with the addition of the requisite OEM installation files and Internet Explorer 1.0. If you wish to preinstall this version of Windows 95 without Internet Explorer 1.0, you may delete the set of Build 950.6 files that make up Internet Explorer 1.0. Attachment B to this letter contains a list of these Internet Explorer 1.0 files. (Again, you may not elect to install only selected portions of Internet Explorer 1.0.) Our preliminary tests indicate that Build 950.6 will boot absent the Internet Explorer 1.0 files, but the access software for MSN will not function and there may be other deficiencies in the resulting program. As you may know, Build 950.6 does not include various new features of OSR 2.0 that support the latest hardware advances, including large hard drives, USB support, Intel MMX capabilities, and so forth. No warranties, express or implied, will apply to the resulting software program if you elect to delete Internet Explorer from OSR 2.0 or Build 950.6. The consent decree that is the subject of the court's order states that it does not apply to Windows NT Workstation, and therefore we do not believe that the order should apply to that operating system. Nevertheless, if you would like to license and preinstall Windows NT Workstation without Internet Explorer, we will make that option available to you. The current version of this operating system, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, includes Internet Explorer 2.0 as an integrated feature of the product. Internet Explorer 2.0 for Windows NT Workstation has never been available separately at retail or in any other channel. Therefore, the court's test for defining the Internet Explorer feature of an operating system - looking to the files that make up a retail distribution of Internet Explorer - cannot be applied to Windows NT Workstation 4.0. If you would like, we will make Windows NT Workstation 3.51 available to you (contact your account manager for a license to this operating system). Windows NT Workstation 3.51 does not include Internet Explorer. We are providing you with this letter concerning Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation in compliance with the court's preliminary order, which is now in effect. We plan to appeal the order, which we believe is incorrect. Further proceedings may result in the preliminary injunction being lifted or in clarifications or amendments to the order. We will advise you promptly of any change to your installation options. I apologize if any of this causes any distraction to your business. Please contact your account manager if you need any help or have any questions. ATTACHMENT A To remove Internet Explorer 3.0 software from Windows 95 OSR 2.0, delete all of the following files: Container Contents Subcontainers Subcontents MSIE3.0.EXE activex.inf addons.inf iedkcs32.dll iexplore.inf infinst.exe inst16.dll inst32.dll install.exe install.ins amovie.exe á expanded below ieakicw.exe á expanded below ieakjava.exe á expanded below Iexplore.cab á expanded below mailnews.exe á expanded below setupsIt.exe á expanded below swinst4.EXE á expanded below AMOVIE.EXE ActMovie.exe amovie.cnt amovie.hIp AMovie.ocx amremove.exe amsetup.dll eula.txt mciqtz.drv mciqtz32.dll msg711.acm Quartz.dll quartz.vxd rundll32.exe setupam.exe IEAKICW.EXE ADVPACK.DLL ICWSCRPT.EXE IEAKICW.INF W95INF16.DLL W95INF32.DLL IEAKJAVA.EXE ADVPACK.DLL CLASSR.EXE JAUTOEXP.DAT JAVADBG.TXT JAVAEE.DLL JAVAPRXY.DLL JAVART.DLL JAVASNTX.DLL JAVASUP.VXD Container Contents Subcontainers Subcontents JDBGMGR.EXE JIT.DLL JVIEW.EXE MFC40.DLL MSAWT.DLL MSJAVA.DLL MSJAVA.INF MSVCRT40.DLL REGSVR32.EXE SETDEBUG.EXE VMHELPER.DLL W95INF16.DLL W95INF32.DLL SWINST4.EXE ADVPACK.DLL ASIFONT.MAP ASIPORT.RSR IE32DSW.OCX IE32DSW.TXT INTRO.DCR M5DRVR32.EXE M5DRVR32.RSR M5IF32.DLL REGSVR32.EXE SW.INF SWADCMPR.X32 SWASTRM.X32 W95INF16.DLL W95INF32.DLL XOBGLU16.DLL XOBGLU32.DLL MAILNEWS.EXE _isetup.exe advpack.dll Cp_20866.nls Cp_28592.nls Cp_28593.nls Cp_28594.nls Cp_28597.nls gapia32.dll Htmledit.dll Imnimp.dll License.txt mail.txt mailnews.cnt Mailnews.dll Mailnews.hlp Mailnews.inf Mailnews.txt news.txt w95inf16.dll Container Contents Subcontainers Subcontents w95inf32.dll Wab.cnt wab.exe Wab.hlp Wab32.dll wabfind.dll wabimp.dll wabmig.exe wldap32.dll SETUPSLT.EXE ADVPACK.DLL asycpict.dll fm20.dll fm20enu.dll ISCtrls.ocx MSNAudio.acm P2D.dll pedcab2.inf Regsvr32.exe riched20.dll W95INF16.DLL W95INF32.DLL IEXPLORE.CAB ACCESSIB.CNT ACCESSIB.HLP ACTXPRXY.DLL ADVAPI32.DLL ADVPACK.DLL ARIBLK.TTF BLANK.HTM CACHEVU.DLL COMCAT.DLL COMCTL32.DLL COMIC.TTF COMICBD.TTF CONNECT.CNT CONNECT.HLP CP_20866.NLS CP_28592.NLS CRYPT32.DLL DIALMON.EXE DIGSIG.DLL HLINK.DLL HLINKPRX.DLL ICHRCNV.DLL ICWCONN1.EXE ICWCONN2.EXE ICWDIAL.DLL ICWDL.DLL ICWIP.DUN ICWPHBK.DLL Container Contents Subcontainers Subcontents ICWSCRPT.EXE ICWX25A.DUN ICWX25B.DUN ICWX25C.DUN IEDKCS32.DLL IERMV2.INF IEXPLORE.CNT IEXPLORE.EXE IEXPLORE.HLP IMAGEHLP.DLL IMPACT.TTF INET16.DLL INETAB32.DLL INETCFG.DLL INETCPL.CPL INETMAIL.INF INETWIZ.EXE INLOADER.DLL INTERNET.TXT INTERWIZ.HLP INT-MAIL.CNT INT-MAIL.HLP INTRINSC.OCX ISIGN32.DLL ISIGNUP.EXE ISO88591.TRN JGDWMIE.DLL JSCRIPT.DLL JSPROXY.DLL LICMGR10.DLL MARQUEE.OCX MINET32.DLL MSHTML.DLL MSICW.ISP MSN.ISP MSNAUTH.CNT MSNAUTH.HLP MSNSSPC.DLL MSOSS.DLL MSRATING.DLL NORWEG.TRN NPRA32.DLL OLEAUT32.DLL OLEPRO32.DLL PHONE.ICW PINGNAME.BAT PINGNUM.BAT PLUGIN.OCX PSSPOS.CNT PSSPOS.HLP RA32.DLL Container Contents Subcontainers Subcontents RA3214_4.DLL RA3228_8.DLL RAGUI32.DLL RALICENS.TXT RAOCX32.DLL RAPLAYER.EXE RAPLAYER.HLP RAREADME.TXT RATINGS.HLP REGEXP.EXE REGSVR32.EXE RNAPH.DLL RSABASE.DLL RSACI.RAT SCHANNEL.DLL SENDMAIL.DLL SHDOCVW.DLL SHLWAPI.DLL SIGRES.EXE SOFTPUB.DLL STATE.ICW STDOLE2.TLB SUPPORT.TXT SWEDISH.TRN URL.DLL URLMON.DLL USASCII.TRN VBSCRIPT.DLL VERDANA.TTF VERDANAB.TTF VERDANAI.TTF VERDANAZ.TTF VSREVOKE.DLL W95INF16.DLL W95INF32.DLL WININET.DLL WINSSPI.DLL WINTRUST.DLL WSOCK32N.DLL ATTACHMENT B To remove Internet Explorer 1.0 software from the OEM version of Windows 95 Build 950.6, delete all of the following files: IEXPLORE.EXE URL.DLL Comic.ttf IEXPLORE.HLP IEXPLORE.CNT SECBASIC.DLL RA.DLL RAPLAYER.HLP PNCLIENT.EXE PNFRONT.EXE INTERNET.TXT INETCPL.CPL DIALMON.EXE INTERWIZ.HLP INETWIZ.EXE INET16.DLL INETCFG.DLL