[plug] More Microsoft Trial stuffups...

[Christian]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, David Buddrige wrote:
> > This time the software giant was illustrating
> > how a PC loaded with Windows 3.1 takes longer to access the
> > Internet than a PC running Windows 98 does.
> 3.1? surely it was 95 with non-intergrated explorer?
> So if we can show them a Linux machine with a non-bundled browser going
> even faster, then will they accept that as evidence that browser
> integration is a stupid idea?

Was the thing being demonstrated actually the computer dialing up and
connecting to the internet?  being configured to connect up to a
provider? or actually downloading data?  From the three descriptions
I've read of this incident I've gotten three very different ideas!  It's
a worry when the media (and possibly the government/legal profession)
can't differentiate between these vastly different things...

Regards,

Christian.

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