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

To: Keith Hankin who wrote (19643)	5/21/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Can't we distinguish between playing hardball that is tough and hardball that is illegal and appropriative?

To: Keith Hankin who wrote (19643)	5/21/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: tiquer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Reg....MSFT offers a better client, at a better price, with better incentives. This has a lot to do with thier gain in market share. Keith.. I would maintain that this has very little to do with their gain in market share, except for the better price part. Part of the problem I have is that, even now when we offer the browser for free so that the price is the same, it still isn't. MSFT gets a free ride onto every PC, while we have to hope that the buyer knows about us and spends the time to download and install it. As for the "incentives", kind of hard to compete with "free" software, and in most cases, the "incentives" are really "threats". Microsoft's "better price" looks to include very large financial incentives. This is what will hurt Microsoft most..not very many people will agree with this kind of "incentive".. ------------------------------------------------------------------ In a memo dated July 1996, Gates allegedly described to other executives his efforts to persuade Intuit CEO Scott Cook to move his company from Navigator to Internet Explorer: "I was quite frank with him ... that if he had a favor we could do for him that would cost us something like $1M to do that in return for switching browsers in the next few months I would be open to doing that." ------------------------------------------------------------------- infoworld.com Roger R

To: Keith Hankin who wrote (19643)	5/26/1998 9:48:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Respond to of 24154

<So why are you complaining when NSCP plays its cards, but not when MSFT does?> I complain when NSCp is allowed to play its card yet MSFT is criticized for playing its cards. <The only other browser that is really competitive is Opera software. Moreover, I believe that the DOJ did suggest that a third browser also be included.> The market should decide which is the competitive browser. Using your logic, IE could be justified as the only browser worthwhile. The only remotely plausible reason to make one company subsidize another company is to make non-competitive companies competitive. In that case, it is the browsers other than NSCP and possible Opera that shoudl be considered. There are at least four other browser companies out there.