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to: Mike `/m`
from: John Cuccia
date: 2003-02-06 16:34:24
subject: Re: Why IE became popular

From: John Cuccia 

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.

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