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

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (19194)	5/17/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sure, Keith. Netscape failed to see that browsing is actually an OS function, and as browsing became wildly popular, browsing was destined to become part of the OS. No, you're wrong. Netscape did know that MSFT would come after them. The Netscape strategy was never to just sit there on their browser. Even back in the early days, there was an understanding that the company could not survive on browser alone. This is evidenced by several facts: 1. Netscape kept coming out with many other products so that they could survive when the browser market bottomed out. 2. Read Netscape's vision statement as it appeared on the company web site, circa July/August 1994: Mosaic Communications Corporation intends to be the premier provider of open software that enables people and companies to exchange information and conduct commerce over the Internet and other global networks. The company was co-founded in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a Fortune 500 computer systems company; and Marc Andreessen, creator of the original Mosaic software for the Internet. This statement does not even mention browsers. Moreover, it still holds up well as the current vision and trajectory of the way in which NSCP is headed.

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (19194)	5/17/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

"Netscape failed to see that browsing is actually an OS function, and as browsing became wildly popular, browsing was destined to become part of the OS. And MSFT doesn't sit on their hands - they have constantly improved the OS." I see, DOS 2.0 to 6.X was a triumph of OS development. Copying Windows from PARC, Apple, et.al. was wildly innovative We had to wait until 1995 to get a barely multi-tasking OS from the geniuses in Redmond. In 1995 they hadn't even completed a fully functioning TCP/IP suite for NT. Here is a short quiz. Name one significant OS feature, LAN feature, protocol, application, software technique or whatever that MS invented or pioneered. I suppose spreadsheets are really OS functions as well. You don't do any accounting for Microsoft per chance? Thure