Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 26, 2003 06:51 AM
> "...why spend to inovate when you can just wait and take what someone else does..." > DOS, Stacker, Spyglass, Windows, Windows 95, Word...
Don't forget IE and Netscape. The DOJ was kind enough to document that one for us:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
Microsoft's James Allchin:
> I don't understand how IE is going to win. The current path is simply to copy everything that Netscape does packaging and product wise. Let's [suppose] IE is as good as Navigator/Communicator. Who wins? The one with 80% market share.
Notice how this philosophy is so ingrained that the idea of adding features to make IE better than Netscape doesn't even occur to them:
> Pitting browser against browser is hard since Netscape has 80% marketshare and we have 20%. . . . I am convinced we have to use Windows -- this is the one thing they don't have...
So what does occur to them? Not the carrot, but the stick:
> We have to be competitive with features, but we need something more -- Windows integration. If you agree that Windows is a huge asset, then it follows quickly that we are not investing sufficiently in finding ways to tie IE and Windows together.
It's a good thing for IE users that Opera and Mozilla came along, otherwise Microsoft would have no new ideas to copy.
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Re:That's Microsoft's philosophy...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 26, 2003 06:51 AM> DOS, Stacker, Spyglass, Windows, Windows 95, Word...
Don't forget IE and Netscape. The DOJ was kind enough to document that one for us:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
Microsoft's James Allchin:
> I don't understand how IE is going to win. The current path is simply to copy everything that Netscape does packaging and product wise. Let's [suppose] IE is as good as Navigator/Communicator. Who wins? The one with 80% market share.
Notice how this philosophy is so ingrained that the idea of adding features to make IE better than Netscape doesn't even occur to them:
> Pitting browser against browser is hard since Netscape has 80% marketshare and we have 20%. . . . I am convinced we have to use Windows -- this is the one thing they don't have...
So what does occur to them? Not the carrot, but the stick:
> We have to be competitive with features, but we need something more -- Windows integration. If you agree that Windows is a huge asset, then it follows quickly that we are not investing sufficiently in finding ways to tie IE and Windows together.
It's a good thing for IE users that Opera and Mozilla came along, otherwise Microsoft would have no new ideas to copy.
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