7/31 Latest M$ claim:
The company said the following in court filings: [...] It
planned to integrate its Internet Explorer technologies "long
before" Netscape Communications even existed, refuting the
government's claim. In a conference call, Microsoft
said that it has been working since as far back as late
1993 on this project.
\_ I've seen IE on the Win 95 beta (code name Chicago) in summer of
1994. It wasn't called IE then. At that time, I had no idea
what WWW is.
\_ I remembered when Chicago was being presented. It was
the days of NCSA Mosaic which was about the same time that
Netscape was about to start. www wasn't as big but it was
still there.
\_ is really doesn't matter what m$/gov claims on the ie issue. in
the end gov will define clearly what an o/s is and is not, and what
an app is and is not for the software industry because the software
industry is either incapable or unwill to do it. just compare it with
the development of the tv rating system.
\_ I thought the IE/OS issue has already been settled by some
court. The issue now is whether M$ has participated in
anti-competitive practices such as designing OS to purposely
destroy its competitors (Netscape, RealNetworks, Caldera,
etc.
\_ That decision was decided by judges who knew jack
about what an OS and web client is. M$ can make the
\_ What the judges say, ignorant or not, is what
will happen.
ridiculous argument that merging OS/IE improves
performance because it allows it to load up faster.
the icon it won't take as long. Hell, might as well
When you think about this really means that Win98
loads up most of IE so that when you double click
load programs into memory because it will already be
the icon it won't take as long. Hell, you might as well
load up every other program on your computer at boot
time while you're at it. That way you won't have to
load programs into memory when you really need them
because it will already be
there. The fact is Active Desktop SUCKS, and so
does IE, and your computer is not a fucking web
page. You don't internet explore your hard drive.
\_ The best thing about the Active Desktop is that
you still have the option to turn it off. --dim
\_ IE not only loads faster, it runs faster than
netscape.
\_ Here's the deal. Windows 98 is faster than
than Windows 95 with IE4 integrated. BUT, Windows
95 without IE4 (i.e., not integrated but as a separate
app or just running Netscape) is FASTER than both
Windows 95+IE4 integrated AND Windows 98. --pcjr
\_ In what way? Java? That's because they
changed the specs to be M$ pseudo java. I
wonder how netscape and IE compare to each
other on a unix box where it's fair.
\_ Netscape beats the crap out of IE on a solaris
box. Despite netscape extermely slow load
uptime, it is still faster than IE which uses
all that MainSoft crap. And IE won't run on
anything less than an ultra, netscape will run
just fine on an SS2.
\_ *I* IExplore(tm) my hard drive! Bill said it was
the best way! Everything is a web page! All data
is best represented as a web page! BILL! BILL!
BILL! |
http://csua.com/feed/