Internet browser market remains highly competitive. Microsoft's competitors in the Internet browser market had mixed reactions. Victor Chweh, CEO of NetSurfers United, was skeptical about the split-up. PC operating platform is dead, and by not including the Internet OS division, the new company is dead on the water as well. Coalition run by a server in Bahamas, welcomed the move.
Nobody wants to see court-tangled antitrust efforts.
Elenor Wellington of Waterloo Research, Inc., who sends out daily Internet news via faxes, questions Microsoft's sanity. It turned out that local phone service was the winner. We expect that the new firm will be more like a standard-setting organization. The firm will most likely be allowed to recover only its licensing and research costs. Microsoft will focus more on application software, network and content provision services, following the footstep of Apple Software Group.