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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (23933)	5/9/2000 5:48:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Gates wants it both ways Larry Magid Upside Today upside.com Bill Gates, writing in the May 15 issue of Time magazine, states that Microsoft (MSFT) "could not have created the Windows operating system if we had been prohibited from developing Microsoft Office." He goes on to describe the "symbiotic nature of software development," arguing that "Windows and Office -- working together and drawing on each other's features and innovations -- have improved personal computing for millions." Wait a minute, Bill. Is this coming from the chairman and founder of the same company which, for years, claimed that there was a Chinese wall between Microsoft's application developers and its operating system team? Microsoft has long been under attack for alleged cross-fertilization between its Office team and its Windows developers. Other software vendors, for many years, have complained that Microsoft applications developers enjoyed an advantage over the competition because they could include hooks directly into the operating system. Microsoft once denied that charge, but Gates has now figured out a way to turn an accusation of anti-competitiveness into a customer benefit. "This remark constitutes an admission that Microsoft leveraged its operating system dominance to become the dominant vendor of office suites," said author and computer consultant Brett Glass. I call it the utmost in newspeak. Gates wants to have it both ways.

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