Print this Web page quick! Microsoft changing its words... and history.

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/doj/7-28formalresponse.htm, Microsoft
publishes a summary of its response to charges brought by the DoJ and
several state Attorneys General.

Ironically, the document as it stands now (3:35 PM PDT on 7/28/98) contains
some errors that make it clear that it was being edited as it was published
-- and that the editing was being done to remove evidence that Microsoft
itself considers Internet Explorer to be a separate product from Windows.

For example, the first bullet point of the document says:

"Microsoft argued that it had planned to integrate its Internet Explorer
technologiesbrowser [sic] into the Windows operating system long before
rival Netscape even existed, refuting the governments’ central accusation
that the company only incorporated its browsertechnologies [sic] into
Windows in order to disadvantage Netscape."

As one can see, the Microsoft employee composing the document was in the
process of changing the document, replacing the word "browser" with the
word "technologies." Why? To obscure the fact that Microsoft itself views
Internet Explorer as a separate browser product. At the same time, the
company attempts to revise history by claiming that it planned to bundle
the browser, when in fact in 1993 it was focused on MSN as its online
strategy -- as documented in Jennifer Edstrom's book "Barbarians Led By
Bill Gates.

Members of the list: PRINT THE ABOVE MENTIONED PAGE ASAP before Microsoft
has a chance to change it, and SEND IT TO JOEL KLEIN AT THE DOJ. It'll make
good evidence that Microsoft isn't even saying what IT thinks.

--Brett Glass