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To: Tweaker who wrote (10207)	6/25/1998 1:04:00 PM
From: Punko	Read Replies (1) of 64865

All of this doj action sorrounding win98 and the browser issue is just a prelude to the real game, which centers on NT 5. Now if the government succeeds in slowing release or forcing changes to that product - or more likely, to Microsoft's organizational structure - you'll see some real fireworks. BTW I don't think any of this will be necessary. The market will decide on its own. There are sufficient technological reasons, with Java improving, network bandwidth exploding, and the variety of computing applications, architectures, and devices proliferating - to cause OS customers to rethink the need to move to NT5 (a competent general purpose OS to be sure) in favor of more specialized platforms - in other words, the best technology for the task at hand. The market - nay, the future - imo, will not allow a single company to play a dominant role amidst this positive chaos that's about to unfold. The move will be away from the propietary towards the open - counter to Microsoft's business model. Microsoft's biggest weakness (that which has brought down many excellent companies before it) will prove to be its belief that it can be all things to all people.

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