Interesting People mailing list archives
IP: Microsoft Says Chicken (Windows) Hatched Before Egg (Netscape)
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 12:52:26 -0700
From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch () internautics com> Microsoft Says Chicken (Windows) Hatched Before Egg (Netscape) In papers that will be filed in the Government's antitrust case, Microsoft will contend that it began planning an Internet strategy before Netscape rose to challenge the software giant. As early as April 6, 1994, several Microsoft employees contend, company strategy was set to include built-in access to the Internet in the company's mainstay product, the Windows operating system. A senior Justice Department official said this week that evidence in the Government's case showed 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 says, is a "grand exercise in revisionist history." [SOURCE: New York Times (C1), AUTHOR: Steve Lohr] <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/biztech/articles/06microsoft.html> -- Rob Raisch, Online Technology Evangelist <http://www.raisch.com/> "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." (Aristotle, 'Politics')
Current thread:
- IP: Microsoft Says Chicken (Windows) Hatched Before Egg (Netscape) Dave Farber (Aug 06)