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To: pat mudge who wrote (17545)	5/13/1997 3:22:00 PM
From: MangoBoy	of 31386

[MSFT quote in TI/USRX release] <<Even Microsoft's need to comment on the USRX/TI product announcement puzzles me. They certainly don't stand to gain if USR gets a foothold in the DSL retail market. Wouldn't they rather have the codes on their operating systems and eliminate the need for USR altogether? >> Pat, There's no precedent for what you're saying. The corresponding analog modem protocols have always been in the modem, not the OS. Microsoft's quote in the release shows that someone at TI and/or USRX has a brain and used it, unlike Amati's PR folks. Where's the benefit to MSFT? bandwidth! MSFT is "pro-bandwidth". anything that drives high bandwidth into the home is "good". at the GTE press conference at N+I there was someone wearing a t-shirt that read "we're agnostic: cable modems, DSS, ISDN, ADSL, FTTC ... it's all MSFT Public Networks". MSFT doesn't "pick winners" in a marketplace it wants to see grow. rather, it endorses everyone, tries to provide a sufficiently well-abstracted service layer in the OS to allow everyone to plug in, and then tries to spur competition in order to foment price wars. mark

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