At: http://www.sjmercury.com/business/tech/docs/041107.htm
Gee, and I thought that when the first edition of Gate's "The Road Ahead"
came out, it hardly mentioned the Net, and was rewritten for the second
edition to include more about it. I didn't read it: anyone know the story
on that?
But the headline of this story doesn't jibe with the contents: I find it
hard to believe that even MS is going to claim that they invented the
browser before Mosaic appeared...
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Microsoft says it was first with browser idea
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a detailed reply to the U.S. government's
anti-trust lawsuit, Microsoft Corp. will argue that the company's Internet
plans were well under way before Netscape Communications Corp. rose to
challenge them, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The U.S. Justice Department contends Microsoft's aggressive tactics in
opening its deep pockets and wielding its market muscle in the Internet
software business were intended to protect and expand its monopoly -- by
crushing Netscape Communications Corp.
But in the reply, which must be filed in federal court no later than
Monday, Microsoft will argue that conversations at a 1994 retreat, as well
as other Microsoft discussions and documents dating to late 1993, show its
Internet plans were under way before before Netscape was founded, the
newspaper reported.
Microsoft will say that its tactics did eventually hurt Netscape, but will
argue that was a byproduct of its main intent, which was to improve its
products and benefit consumers, the newspaper said.
A senior Justice Department official told the newspaper this week that
evidence in the government's case shows a pattern of anti-competitive
behavior by a company that was ``simply hellbent on driving a competitor
out of the market.'' Microsoft's defense, he said, is a ``grand exercise in
revisionist history.''
Microsoft will argue that the Justice Department's road map is distorted.
And interviews with current and former Microsoft executives and business
partners, plus internal documents from 1993 and 1994, suggest that the
company will at least be able to cast doubt on the government's evidence of
intent, the New York Times said.
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