day 2

microsoft duels with netscape 2

Microsoft is fighting a rear guard action. Hampered by its size, ignorance, and sheer weight of customers, the megalith of Redmond is struggling to even register a bleep on the Internet radar screen. In an effort to gain some kind of initiative, M'soft initiated an alliance with DirecTV to bring high speed Internet access to the couch potatoes of America. The problem is that DirecTV is asymmetric - meaning it downloads at high speed, but uploads via a dialup at much slower speeds. This is simply too complicated for Americans who can't even set the clock on their VCR. Someone needs to tell Bill Gates that the cable modem is the next big thing, not DirecTV. Poor Bill; he is puffing just to comprehend the Telecom Bill of 1996.

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