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To: Teflon who wrote (19279)	3/30/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: Smart Investor	Read Replies (1) of 74651

The following is what I got in an e-mail yesterday, and I do not have the details right now. With the re-organization at MSFT, it is becoming clear that MSFT intends to compete strongly in online service, e-commerce and advertising. With strong revenues from other sources, MSFT can afford to offer these services at much lower prices, which will be very bad to AOL and YHOO. It has already been reported before that MSFT intends to leapfrog AOL by using high speed lines or cable. ** Microsoft begins high-speed trial Microsoft Corp. today began trials of its new high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) in four U.S. cities. Being tested in Atlanta and Seattle at first, with Chicago and San Diego soon to go online. The service is expected to be available in 20 U.S. cities by fall.

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