Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Tom D who wrote (1007)	5/26/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

I'm not sure why these posts are supposed to prove the 'evil' nature of MSFT - this stuff is just aggressive competitors looking to use everything in their arsenal to drive their products. None of this is a 'smoking gun'. Anyone on this thread ever sit in on a strategy meeting with Larry Ellison - the guy who first said 'cut off their air supply' (about sybase in 1993)? This is a tough industry and people who don't understand the realities should stay out of the game.

To: Tom D who wrote (1007)	5/26/1998 1:38:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

most fascinating is... "Memphis [the code name for Windows 98] must be a simple upgrade but most importantly it must be killer on OEM shipments so that netscape never gets a chance on these systems." Alot of poor souls will be paying $89+ for that simple upgrade. Pity Windows marketing director Jonathan Roberts told his subordinates to "to really look at why people who get IE with a new machine switch to Navigator and what is being addressed in IE 4.0 to make that difficult." Evil. More interested in maintaining stranglehold than having a good product. Also, this servse as admittance of Navigator being the better product. In addition, allegedly from Windows product manager Christian Wildfeuer: "It seems clear that it will be very hard to increase browser market share on the merits of IE4 alone. Well.. that speaks volumes. 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." $1M? what a cheapo!