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Article #173SOFTWARE: Top 3 Reasons NOT to use MSIE4
From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 00:00
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Forwarded from comp.infosystems.www.announce: (webmuse@my-dejanews.com) wrote: > > <URL: http://www.winzig.com/no_msie4.html> > > My site deals with how Microsoft is using its Internet Explorer 4.0 software > and MS Windows monopoly to destroy the threat that Java poses. If you are a > consumer that would rather have competition in the software market, please > visit my page. I've got a lot of information and facts, including interesting > quotes from the recent Microsoft lawsuits, such as this one: > > [I]n an internal e-mail entitled "concerns for our future" to his > boss, Group Vice President Paul Maritz, Jim Allchin, explained the > reasons for tying Internet Explorer to Windows: "... If you agree > that Windows is a huge asset, then it follows quickly that we are > not investing sufficiently in finding ways to tie IE and Windows > together. ... Memphis [Windows 98] must be a simple upgrade but > most importantly it must be killer on OEM shipments so that > Netscape never gets a chance on these systems." Exhibit 19 (MS7 005526). > > Inform yourself and those you know: find out what Microsoft is REALLY doing. > > > Thank you, > Thomas Winzig > > -- > Kate McDonnell, moderator, comp.infosystems.www.announce > <www-announce@boutell.com> > Charter FAQ: <URL:http://vader.boutell.com/~grant/charter.html> > Moderation resources donated by makaera.com, Montreal -- #### |\^/| Colin R. Leech ag414 or crleech@freenet.carleton.ca #### _|\| |/|_ Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice. #### > < Opinions are my own. You may consider them shareware. #### >_./|\._< "If you can't return a favour, pass it on." - A.L. Brown
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105a5a,b77ae75bf5e532dd,start X-Google-Attributes: gid105a5a,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,b77ae75bf5e532dd,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public From: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Subject: SOFTWARE: Top 3 Reasons NOT to use MSIE4 Date: 1998/05/26 Message-ID: <6kdet4$5k9@freenet-news.carleton.ca> X-Deja-AN: 356533859 References: <7k4iqk$boc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Given-Sender: ag414@freenet3.carleton.ca (Colin R. Leech) Reply-To: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Newsgroups: ott.online,can.infohighway