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NY Times: What’s Funny at Microsoft? Blocking Netscape’s Web Site

Thanks to ll for this link.

“Microsoft has the reputation of being a ruthless, cutthroat
competitor but, hey, that doesn’t mean the company doesn’t know how
to have fun. In an online tutorial for Microsoft’s Back Office
Server 4.0, there is a section called Exercise 2: Control User
Access to Internet Sites that teaches customers how to block
certain Web sites. The example site used by Microsoft:
www.netscape.com.”

“The reference to blocking Netscape was first reported in an
online mailing list distributed by James Love, the director of the
public interest group Consumer Project on Technology. “It surprised
me,” Love said. “I mean, they’re being accused of crushing
Netscape. Maybe it was somebody’s idea of a joke.”


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