Griping about Microsoft IE4

[CMUNSON]

     Black helicopters? Is this an attempt to dismiss and marginalize my 
     opinions as being the rant of a conspiracy nut? Isn't this stuff 
     obvious? You can verify for yourself everything that Microsoft owns. 
     You can also verify that Microsoft and Bill Gates have said on various 
     occasions that they'd like to control everything dealing with 
     computers. Didn't Bill and his cronies whine about how they missed the 
     web explosion and the chance to control it?
     
     It's all right in front of you. It's just a matter of putting the 
     pieces together to see the bigger picture.
     
     Chuck


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Subject: Re: Griping about Microsoft IE4
Author:  Charles Crawford <ccrawfor at tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu> at Internet
Date:    7/16/97 12:36 PM


And Chuck neglects to mention the black helicopters that have been 
spotted flying in and out of the Microsoft campus in Redmond.
     
CMUNSON wrote:
     
> Bill Drew said:
> >I really don't understand the griping and whining about Interent
> >Explorer 4.  Yes, it can take over your desk top, BUT you can also 
> turn
> >that ferature on/off in the settings under the Start menu.  It only 
> >makes sense that IE4 be so closely integrated with Windows 95.
> Remeber
> >that Microsoft is Windows 95.  I get sick of the whining from users 
> and
> >other companies about a so called Microsoft monopoly.  If you don't 
> >like Microsoft load LInux on your machine or go buy a Mac (remember 
> >"the computer for the rest of us" that none of us could afford).
>
>      Anyone who follows the computer industry can see that Microsoft 
> is a
>      monopoly in that industry and that it wants to monopolize the
>      entertainment and information industries that are online. It has 
> a
>      project called Sidewalk that is an attempt to eliminate Yahoo. It 
>
>      gives its IE browser away FOR FREE. It is attempting to privatize 
>
>      image collections (Corbis and Bettmann) and trying to buy 
> librarians'
>      silence with puny donations (Bill's worth 36 BILLION). Microsoft 
> is
>      trying to dominate the online travel industry with Expedia. It's 
> even
>      trying to colonize, no, assimilate Star Trek fan sites with 
> Continuum.
>      It's managed to get webmasters to stupidly put Microsoft IE 
> button
>      ADVERTISEMENTS on their websites, WITHOUT EVEN PAYING THEM. Its 
> site
>      builder program for webmasters is another attempt to get the 
> techies
>      hooked on Microsoft products. This idea that Microsoft has about 
>      including "channels" to corporate websites in its new browser is 
>      pretty scary too. This is an attempt to take back the web by the 
>      advertisers and the big corporations. They are frightened about 
> how
>      the web lets the small gal put up a website that looks as good as 
> the
>      megacorp.
>
>      Is there no end to Microsoft's reach and ambitions? 
>
>      That is just some of the evidence and it should concern us. It 
> doesn't
>      have to be THIS WAY. IF MICROSOFT HAS DESTROYED THE ALTERNATIVES 
> HOW
>      ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO GO CHOOSE THEM? 
>
> I am not an apologist for Microsoft.  My browser of choice currently 
> is
> Netscape Communicator but that may change if Microsoft keeps getting 
> it
> right.  Netscape has made a big mistake in making the browser so 
> closely
> integrated with such features as e-mail and newsgroups.  IE4 lest you 
> pick if you want to install e-mail or not.  On public stations we may 
> be
> removing Netscape and installing IE4 after it is in fianl release.  I 
> am
> getting sick and tired of Netscape ignoring the needs of libraries, 
> schools, and academic institutions.  We need a browser that is fully 
> configurable without spending $800 or more for a configuration
> management program.
>
>      Yeah, like Netscape has the same R&D budget as Microsoft. If you 
> want
>      to collude with the Microsoft Empire, so be it. Have you 
> attempted to
>      convey to Netscape what libraries need? Has anyone? I would think 
> they
>      would be more receptive than Microsoft. 
>
>      If we don't fight back, soon our web experience will be totally 
> shaped
>      by Microsoft and our caffeine will be limited to Starbucks 
> coffee.
>
>      </FLAMEOFF>
>
>      Chuck