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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4631)	2/8/1999 6:11:00 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Michelle I actually use both Netscape and MSIE at the same time. I open them both each morning and do different things with each during the trading day that are mainly investment related. It has really increased the speed at which I can access information, which is something that I find is very important. Have you ever tried this? Vendit

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4631)	2/8/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: William F. Wager, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

AOL said when it discussed the NSCP purchase, that IE would continue to be the "browser of choice" for AOL users. Look, I use both Nav- igator and IE and there has always been choice--both were free. This is nothing more than a govt. ruse to suggest as you do that there is no "honest choice." It is too bad that our tax dollars are being used to pursue Microsoft on behalf of its competitors--the Feds even had to go out an hire a big bucks lawyer to argue its case...wonder what his hourly fee is? (You may use "competitors" interchangably with "politcal contributors.") Win or lose, this case will be on appeal for years--a loss at the district court level will have little short-term effect on Microsoft or the price of AOL stock.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4631)	2/8/1999 6:55:00 PM
From: Annette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

Do you think MSFT will lose? If they do, they just pay the fine and business as usual...

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4631)	2/8/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: musea	Respond to of 41369

Michelle, <OT> Navigator is a program I would like to like better. It looks better, feels better and suits me better but it just crashes more often than Explorer. I continue to use both, but I have to be more careful about what I do with Navigator. The easiest way to make it crash is to click on one thing then click on another before the first thing completes. Do this several times, like when you are following the market action. So I use Navigator to do the slow static things and Explorer for the things that require more stability. I hope that the open source versions of Navigator will be more stable. That will make it easier to make a choice. -musea

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4631)	2/8/1999 9:11:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Netscape has an excellent chance of regaining their dominant position in the browser space and will start being bundled with all the boxmakers again That's possible, but only if Mozilla manages to make a great v5.0 browser. It looks like they're on their way to doing that despite the significant problems caused by the purchase of "cool" Netscape by "evil" AOL (speaking in net-head terms). But here's a question: How, exactly, does AOL benefit by having Navigator included on desktops? They can't charge for the open-source browser that NS has vowed is to be free forever. Will the hope of having people stick to Netcenter be enough to get AOL to aggressively market Navigator 5.0?