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

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 03:25 AM 7/29/98 -0400, Eric M. Bennett wrote:
 
>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.)

Tyler Sperry of Embedded Systems Programming addressed this early this year
in a VERY funny article.

"Being the word monger I am," quipped Tyler in a wonderfully
tongue-in-cheek column,  "I couldn't help noticing that the employees
extolling the virtues of the IE strategy had those old fashioned titles,
'product manager' and 'group product manager.' You would think they would
change those job titles before the Justice lawyers can grab some business
cards as evidence. I would suggest titles like 'enhancement manager' and
'group un-product manager' to really confuse the prosecution."

For the full text, which contains many more clever jibes at Microsoft, see:

http://www.embedded.com/98/9801rt.htm

In any event, someone at Microsoft must have been reading. Shortly
thereafter, Microsoft moved Internet Explorer development from the separate
Applications and Internet Client Group (AICG) into the Personal and
Business Systems Group (PBSG), which develops Windows. (See 

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,18888,00.html

). Microsoft spokesperson Heidi Rothauser, who also does personal PR for
Bill Gates, denied that this move had anything whatsoever to do with the
DoJ case. Suuuuure. ;-)

--Brett Glass