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To: SteveG who wrote (1084)	5/28/1998 3:40:00 PM
From: Pirah Naman	Respond to of 1600

From msnbc.com Paul Maritz, group vice-president of the platforms and applications group, wrote: Microsoft must "blunt" Java's momentum and "reestablish ActiveX and non-Java approaches . . . [to] protect our core asset Windows -- the thing we get paid $'s for." Jeff Raikes, group vice-president for North America Sales, wrote: "The situation is threatening our operating systems and desktop applications share at a fundamental level. Netscape pollution must be eradicated." From infoworld.com An internal Microsoft document: "the strategic objective was to kill cross-platform Java by growing the polluted Java market." Windows product manager Christian Wildfeuer: "It seems clear that it will be very hard to increase browser market share on the merits of IE 4 alone. It will be more important to leverage the OS asset to make people use IE instead of Navigator."