Martin Veitch's Diary
News I am there to speak to IE marketing chap Martin Gregory but also get a word with David Weeks, product manager for 98, who is at remarkable pains to play down the importance of the OS. At least going to work is reason not to visit Allied Carpets and...
[August 30, 1997, 8:00]
Martin Veitch's Weekend Diary
News Talk to Martin Gregory of MS's IE division. Once, Quarteredck had higher ambitions, even considered taking on the big boys in the OS game. Now, like so many companies it is focussing on core competencies as they say in the press releases.
[September 27, 1997, 8:00]
Quotes of the Week, August 25-29
News Microsoft's Martin Gregory. AstraSoft's Martin Pickering on Negroponte's allegations of 'Europe's digital homeless'. "Maybe we're too busy worrying about more cerebral matters such as creating classic cinema and writing great plays.
[August 29, 1997, 10:01]
IE 4.0 to get smoother Active Desktop, UI tweaks
News Microsoft usually offers one or two late surprise feature in its IE releases but Internet platforms product manager Martin Gregory was cagey on what they might be. Gregory said Microsoft will not follow Netscape and offer a separate browser.
[August 27, 1997, 16:57]
MS plays down IE quick ship whispers
News UK product manager Martin Gregory refused to deny the possibility of an early release for the full product, saying he expected an end of year ship date. Despite criticism of the breakneck pace of browser releases, Gregory added that IT departments...
[September 2, 1996, 17:57]
IE 4.0 second beta adds Active Channels
News What you'll see with Preview 2 is that it's more usable and feature complete," said Martin Gregory, Internet marketing manager for Microsoft in the UK. Asked whether "end of summer" equated to end of August, Gregory said: "Within a month of that...
[July 16, 1997, 14:51]
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[September 27, 2007, 8:00]
MS to parade IE 4.0 beta on Easter Monday
News UK Internet platforms product manager Martin Gregory said the software is likely to be available March 31, confounding some rumours that the software would miss its first quarter intended ship date by just beating the deadline.
[March 25, 1997, 15:09]
Five years ago: MS to parade IE 4.0 beta on Easter Monday
News UK Internet platforms product manager Martin Gregory said the software is likely to be available March 31, confounding some rumours that the software would miss its first quarter intended ship date by just beating the deadline.
[March 21, 2002, 6:01]
A year after Pearl Harbour, MS goes for Netscape's throat
News In a sly dig at its arch-rival, Microsoft product manager for the Internet platform and tools division Martin Gregory said: "It's the upgrade Netscape Navigator users have been asking for. The Redmond, Washington firm yesterday announced free...
[December 11, 1996, 17:05]
Windows '97: MS gives IE 4.0 public preview
News With version 4.0 we've brought forward some features that were originally on the drawing board for IE 5.0," said Martin Gregory, Internet Platforms product manager. In what it called a Platform Preview version, Microsoft demoed new features of the...
[February 25, 1997, 14:47]
Quotes of the Week, October November 18-22
News Microsoft's Martin Gregory slaying rumours that IE 4.0 will be rolled into 5.0. "IBM has more people doing R+D than Microsoft has employees. They also give us a lot of money. They also leave us alone.
[November 22, 1996, 10:01]
A Year Ago: A year after Pearl Harbour, MS goes for Netscape's throat
News In a sly dig at its arch-rival, Microsoft product manager for the Internet platform and tools division Martin Gregory said: "It's the upgrade Netscape Navigator users have been asking for. A year after Microsoft's infamous 'Pearl Harbour' attack on...
[December 11, 1997, 7:00]
A Year Ago: MS gives IE 4.0 public preview
News With version 4.0 we've brought forward some features that were originally on the drawing board for IE 5.0," said Martin Gregory, Internet Platforms product manager. Microsoft this morning gave the first public pre-release viewing of Internet...
[February 25, 1998, 6:00]
Yell gets prime position on IE 4.0
News We're working with a number of leading search engines not only to support Internet usage in the UK but to direct UK surfers to the best the Web can offer," said Martin Gregory, Internet product manager at Microsoft.
[December 11, 1997, 11:12]
UK gets IE 4.0 push content
News IE 4.0 will revolutionise the desktop as we know it, transforming it from a static application to a live and interactive, personalised information source," said Martin Gregory, Microsoft's Internet product manager.
[August 8, 1997, 17:08]
Quotes of the Week, December 9-13
News Microsoft's Martin Gregory on its free Windows 3.1 version of IE 3.0. "We've been overwhelmed with requests for [NC] pilots," - IBM's David McAughtry on the popularity of the NC. Intel and Microsoft don't have a monopoly on the PC anymore.
[December 13, 1996, 9:41]
IE 4.0 Platform Preview skips 'channels' UI
News Martin Gregory, Internet platforms product manager at Microsoft, said that channels will be implemented in the beta version of IE 4.0 in "a couple of months", allowing users to "tune in" to favourite Web sites and schedule downloads so that new...
[April 8, 1997, 16:48]
Netscape code plan misguided - MS
News Martin Gregory, Microsoft's Internet product manager said that the most important consideration for developers is the whole service and support package, not just price. Our customers and in particular developers always pick products on a technology...
[January 23, 1998, 15:34]
MS' Gregory sees one streaming standard
News "From a Microsoft point of view the motivation is to avoid a standards battle," Gregory said. Gregory also played down fears that Microsoft would commandeer the streaming standard to its own, proprietary advantage.
[July 23, 1997, 16:07]
