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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7372)	5/18/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: Dermot Burke	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Dwight, re: your point about the success of AOL. Read this and comment:http://www.seattletimes.com/news/business/html98/micr_051898.html Near the end is a story regarding AOL and msft early in the internet positioning games. I'll do it for you :o important were the exclusive deals, prosecutors allege, that Microsoft was willing to give America Online, the nation's largest Internet service provider, a preferred spot on the desktop at the expense of Microsoft's own online service, Microsoft Network, or MSN. The suit quotes Gates as saying the AOL deal was like "putting a bullet through MSN's head." The suit concludes: "The browser war was so critical to Microsoft that it was prepared to retreat in other markets in order to win in it."

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