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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10642)	9/10/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The better product is NSCP's browsers (still is the better product - its more stable and full featured). That's your opinion. Not everyone agrees. So tell me why IE has drastically swallowed NSCP's marketshare? Netscape had essentially 100%, so they had nowhere to go but down. It's now something like 50/50, which seems about right, considering the browsers are pretty much identical in features. Surprise Surprise, most will use the IE to get it. So how many end up actually go through with the switch from an already installed browser to get a new browser to install? Millions, actually. BTW, don't you think having an installed browser makes it easier to download a new one? I wonder if the DOJ thought of that...

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10642)	9/10/1998 2:39:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You still did not answer my simple question that " If the users want to install NSCP's browser, can they just download easily from the internet ? " "YES" or "NO" ? If the answer is yes, then why do you blame that Microsoft prevented NSCP's Navigator to be exposed to the market ? If your answer is "NO", pls explain. If Navigator is really a better product , like you said ( but I never see any performance comparison between Explorer and navigator at all, seeing is believing, only when I see the solid data which prove that navigator is better than explorer then I will believe , otherwise , it is just your imagination and prejudice), then , the end users will definitely download it from the net, because as far as I know there is nothing can prevent to download the navigator from the netcenter.Any how, pls answer my question first , then continue your arguments. Thanks

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10642)	9/10/1998 3:34:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Another secret I would like to share with you is integrating IE with window actually help NSCP, because users can download navigator from the net with IE. If IE is not integrated, how can people download Navigator from the net ? You tell me !!!!!

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10642)	9/10/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Phil Melemed	Respond to of 74651

I am looking for your logic, but do not see it. Not as a lemming, but as someone who is willing to look outside the box a little. I think that you are so fixated on slamming Microsoft that you have put on your own blinders and limited your own world view. What is the fundamental reason that you need to get to the web in order to get Netscape products? Is this a fundamental design flaw, short-sightedness, egotism, or simply acknowledgement that there are other valid ways to get to the internet? In fact, do you need to use a "Browser" to get to the internet? No. We got to the internet long before there were "browsers" and long before there was the World Wide Web. Internet access is not defined solely by browsers and WWW. How do people get America Online access? Do they have to attach to some other online service and download AOL software? No, all they have to do is subscribe to a computer magazine, read a newspaper, or get on a mailing list, and they will get more copies of AOL disks and CDs then they could ever possibly need. What is stopping Netscape from using that type of product distribution plan to get first-time users addicted to the web? Once they get folks online, then they can give updates over the web if they want. Hey, I bet I could use the Terminal Emulator that comes with Windows to call into a service provider that will let me download Netscape products, without using the internet at all, if someone cared to set up that service. Are you so fixated on slamming Microsoft that you blame Microsoft for every fault in their competitors? Maybe you anti-Microsoft lemmings should take off your own blinders.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10642)	9/10/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	Respond to of 74651

Do you seriously believe and can say on this board with a straight face that MSFT's IE has quickly destroyed NSCP's marketshare lead because it came on the market as a better product than Netscape Navigator? Perhaps not better, but surely equivalent. Otherwise, why isn't Netscape saying, "here's what you get in our browser that you don't get in IE that's worth paying for"? Isn't Netscape's claiming that MS's making their browser free forced them to do likewise a tacit admission that they can't improve upon IE in a significant way? In some ways, they can't even match it. Did you know they still don't have a personal toolbar for the Mac version? IE does.