[CLUE-Talk] More on M$ antitrust (NYT article)

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Jed S. Baer wrote:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/technology/26SOFT.html
>
>Interesting quote from the article:
>
>"In November 1995, Mr. Jones wrote a memo to Microsoft's chairman, Bill
>Gates, that proposed binding Windows to Explorer "so that running any
>other browser is a jolting experience." A federal appeals court ruled that
>Microsoft's adoption of the plan was one of the illegal acts the company
>used to undermine the Netscape Navigator browser, a potential competitor."
>
>When will these guys get a clue?
>
>jed
>
Did you see their "explanation" for this, i.e., 

    What he meant, he said, was that the experience would be jolting for
    good reasons if it occurred because of the "great innovations" that
    integration of IE brought to Windows. So presumably you could think
    about the new versions of IE Microsoft was designing as being truly
    wondrous, and that users would therefore find use of the
    comparatively stone age rival products truly unpleasant. 

The full article is at

        http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24779.html

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