From: Mike '/m' 

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:34:25 -0600, John Cuccia  wrote:

>On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:18:18 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>That was then, however.  This is now, and now the story is that
>customers switched to IE, not because it was right there in front of
>them when their computers booted, but because it was better than
>Netscape.
>
>You have to do a better job of keeping up with the party line.

Yup, that's right up there with the NewFact(r) that Microsoft's products
win/won in the marketplace because they are/were better.  That runs counter
to the OldFact(r) that Microsoft products won in the marketplace in spite
of them not being the better product.


You have to say one thing, the MSIP's are a flexible lot when it comes to facts....

 /m

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