Hi, Brett:
Thanks for pulling all those quotes out for me!
Look for more suits to come -- NT is next -- they'll probably finally
respond to the DR_DOS stuff.
BTW -- you guys haven't heard from me cause I'm barely treading water.
On Tuesday, word on high-- move our DB apps to a new production (HP-UX)
server -- Wed, start loading software -- Thursday -- start configuring.
our roll date in Monday. Right.
Kathy
Brett Lorenzen wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Kathy E. Gill wrote:
>
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0501/312847.html
> >
> > Good Grief.
> >
> > I hope the lawyers at Justice get their heads out of their ....
> >
> > First we had : "get 500 new folks using MSIE and we'll give you $1800 of NT
> > software"
> >
> > Now we have : "buy the new MS handheld and get a free upgrade to Win98"
> >
>
> I'm amazed at their continuing gall. To be honest, I really don't think
> MS has the slightest clue what the law says. if they did, they wouldn't
> leave gems like these lying around in internal memos for the DoJ to find:
>
> Microsoft's Christian Wildfeuer , Feb. 24, 1997:
>
> "It seems clear that it will be very hard to increase browser market
> share on the merits of IE 4 alone. It will be more important
> to leverage the OS asset to make people use IE instead of Navigator."
>
> Microsoft Group Vice President Paul Maritz, Jan. 2, 1997:
>
> "I am convinced we have to use Windows -- this is the one thing they
> don't have."
>
> Microsoft Senior Vice President Allchin, Dec. 20, 1996:
>
> "Unless Microsoft were to "leverage Windows ... I don't understand how IE
> is going to win ... Maybe being free helps us, but
> once people are used to a product, it is hard to change them ... My
> conclusion is that we must leverage Windows more."
>
> "Memphis (Microsoft's code name for Windows 98) must be a simple upgrade,
> but most importantly it must be a killer on
> OEM shipments so that Netscape never gets a chance on these systems."
>
> Microsoft senior executive Brad Chase, April 21, 1997:
>
> "Memphis is a key weapon in the IE share battle."
>
> Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, July 1996 e-mail report on his attempt to
> persuade Intuit CEO Scott Cook to use Internet Explorer
> with Quicken:
>
> ``I was quite frank with him (Cook) that if he had a favor we could do
> for him that would cost us something like $1M to do that
> in return for switching browsers in the next few months, I would be open
> to doing that.''
>
> MS uses this same approach in every single market. If MS didn't have
> windows, how many of their products do you really think would be as
> widespread as they are?
>
> IMHO, this is what
> the DoJ should have gone after, and what is truly the anti-trust issue.
> They backed down from this (so far) and took the nice touchy-feely
> issues. It's like MS is making bullets and giving them away, but the DoJ
> can't figure out how to load the gun.
>
> B
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