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

To: Kal who wrote (1015)	5/26/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

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. Try reading this again. He's asking "Why would people switch from IE4 to Navigator, and how can we stop this?". How is this evil? He's asking how they can improve IE4 so people have no reason to switch to Navigator. Should MS not try and improve their product now? And how on earth is this admitting Navigator is a 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. It does speak volumes. It says that browser functionality is a commodity - it is very difficult to add features/functionality that differentiates different browsers. For instance, what could Netscape add to Navigator that would make people switch from IE?