Re[2]: [Am-info] Gates: "To advance technology ..."

[Gene Gaines]

I read John Urbaniak's statement below,

> I heard on CNBC today that under questioning, Gates admitted that
> ~Occasionally, for the good of Microsoft and the advancement of
> Computing Technology, certain code was placed in the Windows OS to
> restrict or prevent competitor's products from running.~

To check that out, I key in:

www.cnbc.com

I get taken to:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp

This appears to be the CNBC TV website where I do a search for
Gates, find an article headlined "Gates: States’ antitrust sanctions
would hamper Windows security" by Brock N. Meeks.

In that article, I find this as the closest quote to John's statement:

  Kuney asked Gates if Microsoft ever intentionally
  makes changes to Windows knowing it will break a
  competitor’s software product. “Yes,” Gates replied, “as
  we add new features we’re constantly making a trade-off”
  between compatibility and new features. “We make those
  decisions every day to this new feature we have to give up
  some degree of compatibility,” Gates said.

CNBC and MSN is such a big and trustworthy news organization, I get
confused.  Who do I trust?

No mention of Microsoft on this homepage, until I go waaay down to
the bottom and find "©2002 Microsoft Corporation"

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 2:27:51 PM, John wrote:



> John Poltorak wrote:

>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:09:47PM -0400, Sujal Shah wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 13:14, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
>> > > I heard on CNBC today that under questioning, Gates admitted that
>> > > ~Occasionally, for the good of Microsoft and the advancement of
>> > > Computing Technology, certain code was placed in the Windows OS to
>> > > restrict or prevent competitor's products from running.~
>> > >
>> > > I ask again, Where is the outrage?
>> > >
>> >
>> > My outrage ran out a long time ago wrt Microsoft.
>> >
>> > Those that would be outraged already knew.
>>
>> I think the point is, why isn't everyone outraged?

> Or at least the opinion leaders in the Press?

> John


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