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29 Apr
When you say "weasel", you're insulting a comparatively nice animal.

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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 99 13:56:46 -0700
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This is from the just-released deposition of James Allard, who was
responsible for building MS's Internet strategy.  The deposition has not
been used in the trial.

	DE MORY: Did you have any concerns that the Web might "grow into a
	rich application platform in an operating system neutral way" in
	May of 1995?

	ALLARD: Could you define "Web"?

It gets even better later:

	DE MORY: So your testimony is browser is a word that you don't use?

	ALLARD: I try not to.

	DE MORY: Okay. So we won't use it today. ... Do you have a word that
	you use for the graphical user code used for rendering images from
	the Web? Is there some short term that we could use to refer to
	that?

	ALLARD: Internet Explorer.

© 1999 Peter Langston