IP: Microsoft Sets Shifts in Internet Strategy

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

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/24soft.html

Microsoft Sets Shifts in Internet Strategy 
By JOHN MARKOFF


EATTLE -- The Microsoft Corporation disclosed several pieces of its new Internet strategy Thursday, saying that it would offer the public a piece of its most successful online effort, the Expedia travel site; would significantly redesign its MSN portal, and would introduce a network computing device. 

         
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Anticipating a world in which software will be sold as a service instead of a packaged good, the company said it would re-introduce MSN, shifting its focus to online communications, improved information searching and electronic commerce. 
The company also demonstrated its new low-priced network computer, the MSN Web Companion, which will deliver the MSN service beginning in mid-2000. The company said the device was part of an evolving business strategy -- going beyond its stranglehold on the PC industry to develop new ways to connect consumers to the Internet. 
The company called the new approach its "everyday