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To: Yaacov who wrote (6398)	5/1/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: Maverick	of 74651

The Justice Department has been reportedly examining whether to seek to block the release of Windows 98 because by integrating the browser into Windows 98, Microsoft is in effect forcing computer manufacturers to ship its browser, in violation of the consent decree. Microsoft claims it has the right to add new features to the operating system, and that web browsing is one such feature. Although Microsoft is targeting Windows 98 at consumers, some analysts said some features will be lost on that audience. ''They've already gone public with the fact that Windows 98 is the end of the food chain for DOS based environments,'' said Harry Fenik, vice president of Zona Research. ''This is kind of the last hurrah. It's kind of sad, because they added a bunch of good enterprise features and at the end of the day their company is pitching it out from under them.''

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