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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mozek who wrote (10049)	8/11/1998 1:46:00 AM
From: William E Hodal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Another little snippet from before Netscape was born: _____________________________________________________________________ businessweek.com@@QjQFLmcAPOgRZwAA/1998/33/b3591105.htm E-Mail: It's Microsoft's Turn One of Microsoft's key arguments in its war against the Justice Dept. will be that the company planned on integrating Internet technology into Windows before rival Netscape was created in April of 1994. Some of the internal E-mail it may use to back this up '' I think we could really popularize [Windows 95]...if we could say [it's] the greatest front end to the Internet '' -- STEVE BALLMER, then head of sales, in a Dec. 7, 1993, message to CEO Bill Gates '' Now I assign the Internet the highest level of importance. It's critical to every part of our business '' -- BILL GATES, to the executive staff on May 26, 1995, three months before Windows 95 shipped. From a memo titled ''The Internet Tidal Wave'' '' Integration [of Internet technology] will help us win mindshare of new Internet clients '' -- Networking engineer JAMES ALLARD, in a Jan. 25, 1994, E-mail telling managers that Windows should include Internet messaging, file transfer, search, and browsing ______________________________________________________________________ Bill