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To: Francis Chow who wrote (57967)	6/15/1998 11:09:00 AM
From: Dale J.	Respond to of 186894

In other words they simply ran over the competition's dingy with their supertanker. They certainly did run them over didn't they. But there was genuine concern a few years back that it was all over for MSFT. "Is windows irrelevant?", "Will Java Kill Windows?", "Can Micosoft survive?" yada yada yada. But I agree Intel is a different animal, with a new set of concerns. We'll have to wait and see what happens.

To: Francis Chow who wrote (57967)	6/15/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Logos	Respond to of 186894

RE: <<Microsoft didn't change the course of the supertanker. IE is based on COM technology and grafted on to their operating system. In other words they simply ran over the competition's dingy with their supertanker.>> Isn't IE based on Spyglass's browser? The way I remember events, Marc Andreesen and the rest of the NCSA gang at U of Illinois made Mosaic. Then Andreesen and some others split off to create Netscape as a commercial venture, with Navigator as their browser. Meanwhile, others stayed behind, eventually started Spyglass, with a browser based on Mosaic, and a different strategy from Netscape: While Netscape sold (or gave away) their browser as a Netscape product, Spyglass sold their browser as a core for other companies' own browsers or networks. One of Spyglass's customers was Microsoft and thus IE was born. At least, that's the way I remember it. My brother was working at NCSA at the time, and I invested in both Netscape and Spyglass. However, this is all years old and I might have made some historical errors. Logos