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To: Bearded One who wrote (21333)	11/10/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (3) of 24154

Everything Mozek says in that statment is correct, but doesn't actually contradict Intel's claims. In fact, it supports the claims. How? I think it supports MSFT's claim, Intel wrote "low quality software" which would break Windows compatibility. So really, the point that NSP hurt Windows is actually evidence that Microsoft did something fishy here, because it provides motivation for Microsoft to stop NSP development. O.K. Suppose you and your partner both have products depending on each other and working together. Now your partner developed something new which will not work properly or even hurt your product's performance. What do you do? You voice your concerns to your partner, you would tell them since their new product doesn't work well with your nearly release product, you won't support it. Because it not only hurts your product, it hurts your partner too because both your products would not working well together. It also hurts the relationship between you and your partner. So what's wrong with that? Your partner then makes business decision what to do with it. They can either pend the new product development to find a better way to do it or go ahead releasing the new product without your support which of course will hurt both companies. Intel chose first option at that time since they knew hurting MSFT would hurt Intel too, same for MSFT. Now both companies all have their second thoughts. MSFT supports Alpha and is developing 64-bit NT on Alpha first, CE runs on non-Intel chips. Intel partnered with MSFT's competition SUN to support Solaris on Merced, they supported MSFT's competitors in Set-top box market, they invested in RealMedia to compete with MSFT's MediaPlayer. That is the competition and cooperation. Every company makes their decision on their own best interest, there is nothing wrong with it.

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