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M$ Monitor: Congress Looks at MS
The Micro$oft Monitor
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Published by NetAction Issue No. 16 November 3, 1997
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In This Issue:
Congress Looks at Microsoft
Project Director Appointed
Talk About Microsoft
About the Micro$oft Monitor
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Congress Looks at Microsoft
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to examine Microsoft's marketing
of the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser when it meets Tuesday, Nov. 4, to
look into software industry competition. The committee is chaired by
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, whose state is home to Novell and
other software companies that have complained about Microsoft's
anti-competitive business practices.
NetAction has submitted its research findings to the Senate Judiciary
Committee, along with the anecdotal information that Monitor readers have
forwarded in recent weeks regarding their experiences with IE and other
Microsoft products. If you have information that may be relevant to the
committee's review of Microsoft's IE marketing practices, please phone the
committee office today, at (202) 224-5225.
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Project Director Appointed
I'm pleased to announce the appointment of Nathan Newman as Project Director
for NetAction's Consumer Choice Campaign. Nathan joins NetAction today, and
will be responsible for monitoring developments related to Microsoft's
anti-competitive business practices, conducting research, drafting reports
and articles for the Micro$oft Monitor, and expanding NetAction's grassroots
outreach to Internet users.
Nathan has a long history of research and organizing for consumer
and social justice movements. A co-director of the University of California
Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research from 1991-1996, he helped
pioneer use of the Internet in support of grassroots organizing and
education, receiving notice for his work in the New York Times, Business
Week, the Washington Post, CNN, USA Today, the Nation and C-SPAN.
Nathan is completing his doctoral work at UCB, where his research has
focused on the emerging role of information technology in shaping the
economic geography of regions. His writing on Internet commerce has
appeared in MIT's Technology Review, State Tax Notes, and a range of
community magazines. He is also an editor and columnist for E-NODE
<http://www.igc.apc.org/e-node/>, an electronic newsletter on the social and
economic implications of the Internet. He was a featured speaker at a
conference sponsored by the Association of Bay Area Governments, and the
annual conference of the California State Associations of Counties. He
recently participated in a debate on THE WEB television show that explored
the implications of taxation on Internet commerce.
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Talk About Microsoft
A lively online discussion about Microsoft has been initiated on AM-INFO, an
unmoderated E-mail list established by Essential Information in conjunction
with the Appraising Microsoft conference scheduled for November 13-14.
The list was set up in part to provide up-to-date information about the
conference, but the intent was also to provide a forum for people interested
in a dialogue on Microsoft's global strategy, which will be examined in
detail at the conference.
To join the dialogue, send an E-mail message to: <listproc@essential.org>.
In the message body, type: <subscribe AM-INFO [first name] [last name]>.
You can also subscribe from the Appraising Microsoft Web site, which is at:
<http://www.appraising-microsoft.org>. Messages posted to the list are also
archived on the site.
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About The Micro$oft Monitor
The Micro$oft Monitor is a free electronic newsletter, published as part of
the Consumer Choice Campaign <http://www.netaction.org/msoft/ccc.html>.
NetAction is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to educating the
public, policy makers, and the media about technology-based social and
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