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To: GraceZ who wrote (20967)4/17/2000 11:00:00 AM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (3) of 29970
 
I had no idea that you could hire MSFT to do programing.

If you make the deal sweet enough, MSFT is certainly up for hire.

Has anyone else ever done that?

Not in the way I am suggesting for the last 6 years. The idea I have in mind is like the arrangement they had with AAPL in the early '90s.

Why would they help someone create something that would be a competing product to NGWS?

What is NGWS? From all Newsweek appearances what I have in mind doesn't compete with it. Does Home 2.0 compete with IE?

You have to figure any kind of internet interface is a competing product to Windows or NGWS because more and more a user spends their time in the internet instead of on their local machine

I guess IE competes with Windows. Does Navigator compete with windows? If MSFT can do an end run around the government and convert Windows into IE, does this new IE preclude the possibility of running application software? Consider the possibility of MSFT composing an add-in for ATHM that is optimized for the alleged new hybrid OS and can run under the old OS. Your NGWS argument almost necessitates that ATHM engages MSFT to create a facilitating interface. The form of engagement can be a deal where both companies use each other's advantages rather than contract programming, but you might see that MSFT would be willing to do a contract soon enough.
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