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

To: Marcelo Magnasco who wrote (22449)	1/20/1999 8:18:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Internal Data Questions Browser's Appeal my.netscape.com Microsoft's internal marketing report from May 8, 1998, said its Internet Explorer was ''fundamentally not compelling...not differentiated'' from the browser made by Netscape Communications Corp. . The document contradicts Microsoft's repeated assertion that Explorer succeeded because it was a better browser than Netscape's product. The Microsoft report found there was no ''grass roots end-user demand'' for the Microsoft browser over the one manufactured by Netscape. Schmalensee replied there was no difference between saying that Internet Explorer was ''better'' and saying that it was ''not differentiated'' from Netscape Navigator and ''seen as a commodity. Can someone tell me how the last sentence (that I have highlighted) makes any sense?

To: Marcelo Magnasco who wrote (22449)	1/21/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<< Just to give you a notion: there is absolutely no way you can install W98 while preserving a preexisting partition structure. It wipesout the disk. >> In my view this was also anticompetitive in result. Windows used to be easy to make dual boot with alternative operating systems on the same computer, as I recall it. That feature went away, hurting alternative OS, even though it made it more difficult even to use with other MSFT OS, and hard on MSFT-only developers. Why? JMHO.