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

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Brett Glass wrote:

>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.

Some of the folks who write documents at Microsoft are truly incompetent.
One fact sheet on NT 5.0 originally said that NT 5 "incorporates tens of
thousands of bug fixes from NT 4."  Several hours after I read that and
posted it to a usenet group, it changed to "incorporates feedback from our
customers."


We can send Mr. Klein a copy of the following article as well:
http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?CRN19970616S0041

"IE 4.0 Product Manager Kevin Unangst insisted the product is on track,
even though Microsoft earlier this year said it expected to ship IE 4.0 by
the end of the second calendar quarter."

Why would IE 4.0 have a product manager if it is not a separate product?
(For awhile, you could get to IE's home page by following the links from
Microsoft's home page to a list of Microsoft "products".  I don't know if
that is still the case.)


Irrelevant side note:
I bow down to the gods of DejaNews for helping me dig up the above link.  I
bookmarked it the first time I read it, but Techweb reorganized its site,
and their own search engine failed to pull up the new link.  But DejaNews
pulled out the Usenet post which originally alerted me to the article, and
the long quotes the post contained were enough of a kick in the pants for
Techweb's search engine to retrieve the correct link, which appears above.
Long live DejaNews!



--
Eric Bennett (http://www.pobox.com/~ericb/), Cornell Biochemistry Department

[If you are Bill Gates and you] want to control video? Just add it to
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Internet? Just add it to Windows. Everyone has to buy Windows.
-Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO