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

To: Kevin Hay who wrote (19337)	5/18/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Can any of the ranting jackals out here explain HOW navigator was actual competition to Windows? Ranting Jackals! Great new ad hominem! I was feeling sort of neglected since I missed out on the "crybaby whining bitches" over on how high. On this particular line, I think you're sort of confused, you're spouting the Microsoft line. You'll have to as Bill and Co. Bill's told us, of course, that Windows could be replaced in a day, if there where only some bright innovators around. Anyway, we got this. In building its case against Microsoft, the Justice Department cites an alleged email from Gates as just one sign of its concern about the market dominance of Netscape Communications' Navigator browser. "A new competitor 'born' on the Internet is Netscape," Gates said in a 1995 memo to Microsoft executives, according to the Justice Department. "Their browser is dominant, with a 70 percent usage share, allowing them to determine which network extensions will catch on. They also are pursuing a multiplatform strategy where they move the key API [applications programming interface] into the client to commoditize the underlying operating system." (from news.com ) Of course, on this little piece of evidence, I'm sure I'm a victim of that famous hobgoblin of small minds again. It's been after me a lot lately. I agree about the great theater, very entertaining part though. Great Microsoft innovation, making entertainment out of antitrust law. Who could have imagined? Cheers, Dan.

To: Kevin Hay who wrote (19337)	5/18/1998 8:18:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

You DO want to pay extra for this (internet capabilities).. This is one of the biggest canards out there. How about: I DO want to pay less for just Microsoft's OS rather than the bundled pair of OS+browser?

To: Kevin Hay who wrote (19337)	5/19/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

I guess navigator is an OS across multi computers, while Window is limitted to one single computer. We can also say navigator is a dynamic OS system and it is much more flexible than the traditional OS which is just sitting in one single computer.

To: Kevin Hay who wrote (19337)	5/19/1998 2:39:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

DOJ will be shown to not have a clue about software, msft will make a small concession or two, and that'll be it. Man, you just don't get it, do you? All you Microsoft lovers think that with a little concession here, a little PR there, this whole, big nightmare is going to go away. I've got news for you. This isn't like crushing Novell, or pulling the wool over DOJ's eyes with some too clever by a half Consent Decree. This is the Real Thing. Microsoft is in a fight for its life, and making concessions of the kind it has made will only make it easier for their opponents to move to the next step. The regulators are after blood, and they're not going to stop until they have Chairman Bill's scalp and the company in pieces. Check out this excerpt from the Netscape PR Newswire release today: Netscape applauds the U.S. Department of Justice, the State Attorneys General and the District of Columbia for today taking action which marks the initial step in loosening the chokehold the Microsoft monopoly has on the computer industry. This initial step will begin to enable consumers to have a fair choice of products that can compete in the marketplace on their own merits. We believe government investigators have examined the case thoroughly and would not have brought action against Microsoft unless their investigations had uncovered serious violations of the law. Did you catch that bolded part? They said this is just the "initial step," the beginning in a long, drawn out process of first reigning Microsoft in with a bunch of regulations, then cutting it down to size. Then there's this choice cut from Senator Hatch, your good buddy on the Judiciary Committee: "As industry people are willing to testify and tell how they have been treated, I have no doubt their case will become broader," Hatch said at a news conference. That's right: "I have no doubt their case will become broader." Cut the propaganda BS and get a real strategy if you want your beloved Microsoft to survive this.