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• 18 Aug 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  Steve McGeady was head of the Intel Labs Projec tthat developed ProShare Video Conferencing. I've often wondered why it was that the ProShare ISDN boards would not allow Internet connections! The answer might be here: Microsoft was illegally blocking Intel from implementing hardware direct Internet connectivity.
  
  The only reason ProShare failed was this lack of Internet connectivity!!!!

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  • McGeady also claimed in his testimony^[7] that Microsoft Vice-President Paul Maritz had described, in a meeting at Intel, Microsoft's plan to "embrace, extend, [and] extinguish" the HTML standard until it would be incompatible with the Netscape browser.^[8] While this term had some currency before his 1998 testimony, this was its first prominent public exposure.^[9] Documents presented by the government showed Microsoft was concerned about McGeady: "Steve McGeady remains an issue for us. He is a champion of Java, and a believer that the day of bloatware is over," wrote Microsoft VP Paul Maritz in an email to Bill Gates. He has more IQ than most [people at Intel]."^[10]
  • When Microsoft learned that McGeady's group at Intel had implemented its own Java VM and multimedia class libraries that ran very fast on the Intel architecture, Microsoft became very upset that Intel was working in Java. McGeady testified that Microsoft pressed Intel to stop this work.

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