Re: Software giant plans to argue Explorer development began prior to Netscape

["John D. Thomas" <johnd@gw2kbbs.com>]

This is wild, another MS re-write of history, if you cannot innovate in
the software market you may as well let your view of history be
innovative.  The link below has the browser histories for Netscape, IE
and Mosaic.  If this were the case, why is it that you originally had
to  obtain the plus pack to get IE when 95 first shipped.  I'd also like
to know that if MS was planning this back in 93, why did they have to
license Spyglass to come out with a browser?

I seem to remember a BG interview on the Economist where he stated that
they were planning to "integrate the internet" with windows 95.  I hope
the court can see that for what it is, a thinly veiled attempt to play
on people not knowing the difference between a TCP/IP stack and a web
browser.  I do remember that part of the windows 95 spec in 94 was to
include MS branded TCP/IP and Winsock since many people didn't want to
hunt down other stacks but there was no mention of a browser until late
winter or mid-spring of 95, and I remember MS was not even sure that IE
would make it with the 95 release.

Man I hate these guys.

http://kempelen.inf.bme.hu/htmlhelp/index.html


Charles Behney wrote:
> 
> http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9807/28/microsoft/
> 
> MS spokesman Mark Murray on the visionary nature of Microsoft:
> 
> > Among the points Microsoft plans to address is
> >                that its Internet Explorer browser software was
> >                developed prior to and independent of Navigator,
> >                the once-dominant browser software created by
> >                Netscape Communications Corp.
> >                  "We plan to demonstrate in court that Microsoft
> >                was already planning to include the browser in the
> >                operating system as far back as 1993, well before
> >                Netscape was even founded in April '94," Murray
> >                said.
> >                  In addition, Microsoft plans to argue that its
> >                software beat out Netscape's product in 19 out of 20
> >                independent reviews.
> >                  "The government is alleging the only reason
> >                Microsoft is gaining consumer popularity is we must
> >                be doing something wrong. I think the facts speak for
> >                themselves," Murray said.
> >