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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearded One who wrote (6800)	5/9/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 74651

Bearded One--- It is next to impossible to uninstall IE from Win 95. Windows is the best thing going in software--- the masses can use a computer without thinking but I will keep Netscape until the end. IE did not and still does not impress me enough to change and even with the size of todays hard drives it seems a shame to have that space wasted by IE that does nothing... Irreguardless--- still keep trading the stock----

To: Bearded One who wrote (6800)	5/9/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>To not violate the injunction, Microsoft must offer an IE-less version of Windows 98.< But of course I believe they have a right to have the code there, in case the end user wishes to use IE. And also, Microsoft should be allowed to offer an IE integrated-and-installed-as-default version of Win98. Take the automobile. There has been a steady stream of added features, many of which were probably at one time offered by third party vendors. Surely there has been an equitable way to allow innovation in the automobile. Imagine if the automakers had been prohibited from offering innovations which were being offered by third parties? Sure, the brower is NOT integral to the operation of the basic O/S functions. Neither is the air-conditioner integral to the operation of the basic automobile functions (getting down the road safely). But for practical purposes, most new car buyers want air conditioners in their new car, so it is a de-facto necessity in the eyes of the consumer. So it is with the browser. How many PC users out there don't want anything to do with the internet? The browser has become a defacto necessity to the software sold with a new PC. To prohibit MicroSoft from offering a browser with the O/S would be like prohibiting car manufacturers from offering A/C as a standard feature of an automobile, to protect independent automobile A/C sellers.