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To: drmorgan who wrote (809)	11/6/1997 3:04:00 AM
From: Dan Guinan	Read Replies (1) of 878

I've said this a hundred times 'if MS say's IE is an integral part of the OS then what is to stop them form saying Office 97 and MS Money are too? Just make them part of the active desktop and we can not only destroy NSCP but Corel Word Perfect office suite, Smart Suite and Quicken financial! MS Office is already a Monopoly, which is why the price for MS Office has been sky-rocketing. Compare the inflation adjusted price for MS Word today with what it was when Word Perfect was king. Illuminating! But, if Perfect Office managed to somehow gain 90% market share, MS would probably bundle it in with the OS (If they didn't go under - 50% of their revenue is drawn from MS Office). You can bet that MS would have bundled a home finance package with Windows if the Intuit fiasco didn't occur. MS Money was already being handed out for free with almost everything MS sold prior to the attempted buy-out of Intuit. After that failed buy-out, the eyes of the Justice Department were too focused on that Market Segment for even Big Bully to play hard-ball. Microsoft barely made it out of that alive - I need to vent: Judge Sporkin, who was charged with investigating MS at the time, started crying "foul" due to all of the terribly dirty goings on he was finding out about from outside and within Microsoft. He was attempting to open up a full scale investigation on to the business practices of Microsoft (ala AT&T) when he was blind-sided. He was pulled off of the case, another judge took his place, immediately dropped all charges against Microsoft and then resigned. Big Bully pulled in some real favors to make that happen. Can he do it again? It will be a disgrace to the country if so. We should all be humiliated by this. -Dan

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