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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (21370)	11/11/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

<Yes for games there has been a speed improvement.> At least your being honest:-) <Dedicated machines would work better; ask any kid with the latest video game (sega, ninetendo, etc.) console what he prefers, the console or win9x.> Ask any adult gamer (who can afford computers) which he would prefer. <Most customers need a word processor and email. A 486 running win3.1 is equal to or faster than a Pentium 2 for these tasks.> Not at all. One of the most productive features in Office is the OLE and DDE capabilities. These things rarely worked in 3.1 on a slow machine with little RAM. Try to edit an Excel spreadsheet in a Word document and you get a crash. Productive administrative assistants and some analysts/consultants use these features often. At least the ones I know do (I know quite a few). Multi-threading and multi-tasking didn't work well (or at all) in 3.1 since it was a 16 bit system. That is why NSCP went through such pains to support the 3.1 browser, to force MSFT to support inferior technology that it was trying to kill off. What NSCP did was to stall development in the market as well. I can't knock them though, it was a damn good idea. The only good thing about 3.1 was that it would not run java:-). <Reginald, what do you care about performance issues anyway? All that matters from the standpoint of a MSFT shareholder is that the copyright laws remain as they are, and that the MSFT marketing works its magic. Who cares about what could have or might have been in regard to quality of software when profits continually rise and you're legally protected?> I am shareholder, a vendor, and a customer. Shouldn't I care?