IP: Microsoft Says Chicken (Windows) Hatched Before Egg (Netscape)

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch@internautics.com>




Microsoft Says Chicken (Windows) Hatched Before Egg (Netscape)


In papers that will be filed in the Government's antitrust case, Microsoft
will contend that it began planning an Internet strategy before Netscape
rose to challenge the software giant. As early as April 6, 1994, several
Microsoft employees contend, company strategy was set to include built-in
access to the Internet in the company's mainstay product, the Windows
operating system. A senior Justice Department official said this week that
evidence in the Government's case showed a pattern of anti-competitive
behavior by a company that was "simply hellbent on driving a competitor out
of the market." Microsoft's defense, he says, is a "grand exercise in
revisionist history."


[SOURCE: New York Times (C1), AUTHOR: Steve Lohr]
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/biztech/articles/06microsoft.html>



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