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

To: Keith Hankin who wrote (15387)	12/22/1997 8:14:00 PM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Point well-taken. However, there IS the ongoing cost of technical support (and of course, the ongoing costs of developing updates). If one considers IE (and each subsequent update of it) an improvement to the core product, then Microsoft has always done this type of thing before with little fanfare (except for the lost court battle to Stac over disk compression, where there was the accusation of theft of intellectual property). Two years ago, I would have never thought of the browser as being part of the OS, but rather as a nice communications application, and I suspect that two years ago, neither did Microsoft. I'm not sure how an integrated browser is going to help me, since all I have to do is launch Netscape to get connected. But the arguments presented here today about Trumpet do register, and from that perspective, for a lot of people (especially novices), an integrated browser could be a lot easier. Then again, if they always got what they wanted, wouldn't most people want to see Office integrated with the OS and at no extra charge?