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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ed who wrote (965)	5/23/1998 3:59:00 AM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Many people seem to forget or intentionally ignore the following: 1- Microsoft uses contract tying: It forces OEMs to bundle and install IE with their OS. This is illegal. Pure and simple. 2- If Microsoft was so sure its products are superior or nearly as competitive as other companies' equivalent products, they wouldn't be giving away products and/or selling them at a deep discount, and they wouldn't be concerned about competition! Could it be any clearer than this?? Examples IE, IIS, SQL server. I mean, like, \ DUH. 3- By looking at Microsoft's internal documents, THEY ADDRESS the fact that will use and leverage their OS monopoly to plorifirate the use of their inferior IE. Also, thier internal documents show how they plan(ned) to stifle and fragment JAVA. Plenty or URLs on the web to read on that. What more evidence would a reasonable thinking man need!! Such documents are used in the DOJ case against them. 4- Read 1,2, and 3 again, and slowly. The matter is simple.

To: ed who wrote (965)	5/24/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1600

. Instead of competing with better products, and new innovation so that consumers can't refuse its products, NSCP choose the way of crying to the DOJ to order MSFT to sell NSCP's product. This is the standard sob of the microsoft apologists. I've eliminated its legitimacy already with this question: What significant innovation has microsoft made in this industry? To date, nobody has come up with any, other than "marketing." Microsoft has admitted to illegal "marketing" practices in the past. They are under investigation for them here again. So, when you say Netscape chose not to innovate, I have to say you are a fool. Netscape (and/or the people that became netscape) created the browser. Not just the mosaic browser which got renamed to navigator, but the browser code that microsoft licensed for internet explorer as well. e.g. Microsoft does not innovate. Dragonfly