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To: Jacques Tootight who wrote (3830)	7/14/1998 7:47:00 PM
From: oldcrow	Respond to of 4903

Personally, I would love to see a rebuttal directly from Netscape thrashing the validity of these browser share studies... it would require very little effort to "highlight" the complete lack of appropriate scientific method used. What would be better...is if Netscape would facilitate an independently performed survey of its own (with solid statistical design) which not only determined the percentage of navigator vs IE users, but more importantly determined a qualitative measure of preference AND/OR satisfaction for navigator vs. IE...results from a study like that would surely shake things "up". Those results might also provide additional leverage in the DOJ proceedings as well. Serving as direct evidence that the consumer DOES want a choice, is not satisfied with IE (assuming results support this)and in fact, prefers the navigator. All we need is for people to be given the choice on their new PC...and not have the IE stuffed down their throat. I just can't understand how MSFT even has a case for not letting this happen. Gates jokingly used his Coke/Pepsi analogy....well, if Coke is the only product "being allowed" to sit on the "shelf", what kind of competition is that? If the DOJ does not find major anti trust infringement in this case I will be shocked...and the definition of "competition" will be changed forever. Allen

To: Jacques Tootight who wrote (3830)	7/14/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: oldcrow	Respond to of 4903

From the Fool excerpt...<<Zona Research conducts a periodic census on Web browser use in the workplace. For each survey, around 250 information technology professionals are randomly selected. This was Zona's seventh Web browser census. << -250 is hardly a representative sample given the overall size of the browser population. -No indication of the actual number (simply "around" 250...what, ...within 20 of this number?...50...75?...) -No indication of the actual response rate... were their 250 respondents, total?...and all 250 responded?..or were 250 respondents chosen from which a "handful" of participants were randomly selected for the survey? - in any case it is extremely unlikely that a 100% response rate was attained...and even if it was, the sample is TOO small to make generalizations to the population as a whole. -let's hear more about this "random" selection process claimed to have been used... Come on Netscape,...get on the wires and "burn" this trash to ashes...