Gee -- and I know a woman who was FIRED from MS (she was a real employee, not a contractor) who, among other things, was chastised for pointing out the potential of the Net and its possible impacts on CD-ROM technology ... and that was in 95, I believe, or 96. Kathy Kathy E. Gill Business Process Information Visibility, http://process.ca.boeing.com/ BCAG Process Management, http://bpm.ca.boeing.com/ -- 425.234.2004 Empty pockets never held a man back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale Microsoft Exchange: the perfect name for its users' greatest desire! > ---------- > From: Barry Lee Brisco[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 2:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WC:>: Microsoft says it was first with browser idea > > 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... > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now > Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants > If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be > done > directly from our website for all our lists. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
