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To: ToySoldier who wrote (10509)	9/3/1998 2:27:00 PM
From: Phil Melemed	of 74651

I am a Microsoft employee. I have not been directed to do anything regarding MSFT public relations except to keep from disclosing confidential information and to keep from discussing issues where I have material impact. I believe that we are actually somewhat encouraged to stay OUT of forums like this one. I am here because I have a fair amount of my portfolio in Microsoft stock, and a fair amount of stock options. Do you think that Microsoft employees don't need investor information? As an employee, I am pro-Microsoft. As an investor, I am more of an agnostic. There are lots of places for me to put my money, I just need to determine how much of it to keep in my employer's stock. Personally, I wish that the Pro-Microsoft and Anti-Microsoft folks would just keep quiet unless they had relevant investor information. Regarding the craftiness of Mr. Gates: You are kidding yourself if you think he cares about what is posted here, unless it is libel. You are kidding yourself if you think Mr. Gates wants the bulk of his employees to spend their time defending Microsoft or protecting its "honour" (quoted because I question the concept, not the spelling.) Mr. Gates has instructed employees to not get distracted by the DOJ stuff and instead concentrate on doing the various jobs they were hired to do, in support of growing our company and its products. You are the naive one for thinking that someone who runs as large and complex a business as this while keeping up with all the detailed technical info and trends would waste much time on minor stuff like this forum. (From a practical point of view, having all the employees, many of whom only know about their day-to-day business, actively going out and representing the company as its agents would be a very risky approach. I would expect that the PR-opaganda arm of the company would be making more pointed and specific moves that could be planned and tracked.)

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