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

To: Bearded One who wrote (22350)	1/7/1999 2:51:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Here's a browser story: Yesterday I was trying to play a file from cnn.com. I was informed I needed the msft windows media player. OK, download, install. It asks me if it should also be allowed to play ram real player files. I say sure, ok, having learned nothing from previous experiences with MSFT internet software. So, it deinstalls real player from netscape. Now whenever I run into a ra or ram file windows media player launches (after 5 or ten seconds worth of annoying logo animation.) Only one serious problem. It doesn't play ram files. Somehow it reinterprets their name extension as .rm! And then can't find the URL. Of course it's own msft file format gets found correctly. So, I cut the url from the original page and paste it each time into the real player standalone app. That's the work around, until i figure out how to make windows media player release it's grip on netscape. Now, a bad url because of reformatting the name extension - how could they possibly miss this during testing? As far as I can tell this would never work. Of course my one day of never getting it to play the news for me is hardly exhaustive testing, but yknow, this is CNN we are talking about. And, BTW, where were they in all this? Does CNN just assume web software is going to work? Well, that's the news from my house. Another inadvertant MSFT software bug that just happens to disable an enemy data format, along with the enemy application. I'm sure MSFT will fix this in good time. Naturally, though, one must have priorities. Cheers, Chaz P.S. Is this what they mean about people running true to form?

To: Bearded One who wrote (22350)	1/7/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

From the DOJ files: usdoj.gov ... From: Kumar Mehta Sent: Thursday, March 27, 1997 1:29 PM To: Bob Foulon Subject: ie data Bob, here is some info on how people get and use IE that might help you guys. My feeling, based on all the IE research we have done, is that it is a mistake to release memphis without bundling IE with it. * IE users are more likely than other browser users to get it with their computers. Overall 20% of people who use IE at home obtained it with their computer, and 24% of those using IE at work got it with their computer. Effectively we would be taking away the distribution channel of almost a quarter of all IE users. * Overall 34% of all survers (not just IE users) have ever downloaded a browser. That means 66% of everybody on the web has never downloaded a browser. * Almost 50% of all suervers have never downloaded any software from the web. my sense is that these people are not very likely to download anything, let alone a browser that takes 2 hours to download, from the web. * Also from all our research with IS and web professionals we know that they eventually expect us to win the browser war because ie will be bundled with the operating system and they will ahve no real reason to purchase navigator. * Also, we both saw in all our groups with end users and IS that the integration of the browser and the operating system was a very compelling feature. So there you have it. Microsoft's research indicates that downloading a browser is not a substitute for distribution with computers.