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to: John Cuccia
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2003-02-06 17:18:18
subject: Re: Why IE became popular

From: Mike '/m' 

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:41:16 -0600, John Cuccia  wrote:

>I don't have an agenda, and I think IE usage took off because it's
>icon was right there on the desktop.

I enjoyed reading one of the emails in the trial transcripts where an
Microsoft exec said that they had to bundle IE with Windows in order to
leverage the marketshare of Windows and push IE on to the consumers.

I also enjoyed the early comments about Microsoft supporting early versions
of IE because they were "technically superior".  Once IE had the
majority marketshare, that reason was turned around to supporting IE
because it had majority marketshare.

  /m

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