Month: November 1998

“Microsoft has to innovate beyond standard protocols. We would lose differentiation if we did not.”

Microsoft marketing manager Ed Muth, responding to critics of an internal memo detailing the need for Microsoft to subvert open standards to survive, News.com, 4 November 1998

“[Our boards are] the opposite of navel-gazing…. This is for people who have the least access to other venues.”

Brill’s Content self-publisher Steven Brill, on his magazine’s new media complaint boards, which are conveniently accessible only through America Online, Wired News, 4 November 1998

“Clear ontology and powerful searching — those are things you usually hear from portals, not so-called content sites.”

CNET CEO Halsey Minor, describing the shifting strategy of several purportedly editorial Web sites his company publishes, at NDA ’98 in San Diego, 2 November 1998

“Einstein would have put his stamp of approval on everything we’ve done.”

Robert Freeman, VP of operations at optical networking startup Silk Road, which promises to boldly go where fiber’s never gone before, The New York Times, 2 November 1998