Re: From dominating the desktop to owning the web

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Lewis A. Mettler on 12/14/99 7:59 AM ---

>Gene Gaines wrote:
>> 
>> Hey, how about an important subject.
>> 
>> Here are a few CNET documents worth reading.  Start at:
>>    http://home.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1474065.html
>> 
>> Microsoft's about-face
>> >>From dominating the desktop to owning the web
>> 
>> A CNET Special Report
>> By Valerie Potter
>> (12/8/99)
>> 
>>    Microsoft has a monopoly on the computer operating system. So said
>>    District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last month in the 207-page
>>    findings of fact, which marked the latest development in the ongoing
>>    antitrust trial against the software maker. But what does that
>>    actually mean for Microsoft?
>>    ...
>>    ... the software giant has already embarked on a contingency plan:
>>    move to the Net. Over the past several months, the company has
>>    outlined a number of new Internet strategies:
>>    ...
>
>Front, foremost and determinative is forcing all consumers to buy IE via
>bundling.  In antitrust terms that is using your monopoly power to force
>and establish a second monopoly market.

Did somebody say he doesn't try to contaminate every thread with an 
attempt to steer it onto his pet topic?

Bring back Brett Glass!

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net