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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (37972)	2/17/2000 12:17:00 AM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (2) of 74651

LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft <MSFT.O> Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has said his company's new Windows 2000 operating system would give it the ammunition to "go after" competitor Sun Microsystems <SUNW.O>, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Sun leads the market for business and web server operating system software but Microsoft aims to change that. The Financial Times quoted Ballmer as accusing Sun of "stirring the pot" by raising anti-trust concerns in Europe. Last week, the European Union's Competition Commission said it had launched a probe of Windows 2000 to see if Microsoft was likely to extend its dominance in personal computers to business servers and electronic commerce. Ballmer said Microsoft would reveal performance data on Thursday "that may frighten the competition," the Financial Times said. Though Windows 2000's main competition is Sun's Solaris system, Microsoft was working on ways to compete more effectively with free operating system Linux, Ballmer said. ((Elisabeth Eaves, London newsroom, +44 171 542 6701, fax +44 171 542 2120, uk.equities.news@reuters.com))

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