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Cramer runs a hedge fund and writes for theStreet.com He is long Cisco, Microsoft and Intel. This column should not be construed as advice to buy or sell stocks
...Epoc, you should know, was developed by a consortium called Symbian (which includes Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola), and is being positioned as the standard for next-generation cell phones--a distinct possibility since those manufacturers produce 80% of the world's mobile phones. That's probably why Microsoft referred to Psion as its "No. 1 global threat" in an internal memo last year...
...road to this impasse is as full of mutual distrust as any of the software giants' previous disputes. Microsoft launched MSN Messenger in mid-July. Besides providing a free hotmail account, it allowed AOL buddy-list users to sign in too--if they entered their password. That set off alarm bells at AOL, which promptly blocked Microsoft's access to its server. Microsoft came up with a fix, which AOL also jammed. A terse exchange of snail mail followed. Late last week AOL customers were greeted at login by an ominous new start-up screen warning of the dangers...
...side looks paranoid, the other snooty. Neither is backing down. "Microsoft is using hacker tactics," says AOL vice president Barry Schuler. "This is what happens when they decide to own a market. It's shocking behavior." Microsoft's response: passwords are required only for access to AOL's IM server and aren't recorded by the software. "AOL just isn't educated on what our service does," says Microsoft Network product manager Rob Bennett...
...last week, largely because it had earlier made public some of the source code for its IM software. Open-source proponents, who believe all code should be freely available, couldn't understand why AOL would then turn around and stomp on a rival's attempt to emulate it--even Microsoft's. "This is about money and control," says Bill Kirkner, chief technology officer at Prodigy and an open-source supporter. "AOL saw someone else was building a better mousetrap and didn't like...