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

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15434)	12/23/1997 1:19:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Respond to of 24154

Reg - So Mr. MSFT engineer, what is to prevent users from runnign NSCP Nav on Win 98? If I click on a URL in any context (outside of Netscape itself), IE opens it. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. A URL in a mail message, a URL in a spreadsheet, a URL in a word processor document, whatever. I can run NSCP, but only if I want to keep popping IE up and shutting it down every 2 minutes. This provides no choice to the consumer. -justinb

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15434)	12/24/1997 12:15:00 AM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> So Mr. MSFT engineer, what is to prevent users from runnign NSCP Nav on Win 98? No one has been arguing that users are prevented from running NSCP. However, they have to keep both browsers, and all of the problems it entails, including: 1. The user will not always have the choice of which browser is used, and will have to learn and use both browsers for different tasks. 2. Once MSFT has leveraged their monopoly to beat the consumer into using their browser for all of the "convenience" that it provides over the competition so that MSFT has a dominant share of the browser market, they will be able to control the Internet much in the same way that they now control the PC market.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15434)	12/24/1997 4:30:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>So Mr. MSFT engineer, what is to prevent users from runnign NSCP Nav on Win 98?<<< If the early versions are any guide, things happen like: 1. When I clicked on a link in exchange mail, it tried to run the deinstalled IE. It then put up a message asking for a different browser, but wouldn't actually run it, crashing instead. This isn't always the pattern, but the result seemed to always be the same for me, can't use the links from MS other apps. 2. When I installed netscape and then MS VC++ 5.0 on windows 95 after having disabled (not removed) IE, it launched the internet connection via modem while I was browsing some docs, but I was not able to use Netscape to actually look at them. These could for sure be install problems. The kind they normally fix. This is one way you could look at 'no choice.' Chaz