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To: QwikSand who wrote (19310)	9/4/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Something along this line has happened every time M$ has been threatened with an innovation, don't see why it should be different this time. Because M$ has little franchise as an ISP or *with ISPs. They have no leverage. Balmer's talking about M$ retailing Office. It's not Sun they'll be competing against, but AOL and AT&T and every ISP not using a IIs server. Actually, AT&T would be their one shot it would seem, but I doubt that will happen. You? -JCJ

To: QwikSand who wrote (19310)	9/4/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

That's possible. But it's also possible that eventually there will be a sea change of public opinion and that even the press will pick up on it. One can only hope. I frankly think Microsoft doesn't have much of interest to say about Office Suites right now, and for a while may try to deflect attention onto other things, e.g. some new game offerings, any good news that might come out of the DOJ trial, a few new catchy but meaningless acronyms, etc. -- whatever they can dig up that doesn't have a downside. Microsoft needs to buy some time until they can come up with something. It's up to Sun to maintain the advantage. JMHO.

To: QwikSand who wrote (19310)	9/4/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I'm going to go ahead and upgrade that AT&T thing from "doubt it" to "absolutely not". There's an anti-trust angle on that, and a political one in it's being contrary to T's senate testimony about being committed to open standards. AT&T requires the code. AT&T gets what it requires. AT&T resells the documented APIs (NT to Sun as Project Cascade) and then all suites do Office natively. I'll flame you now Q - Pffft - and apologize profusely should that 'other shoe' drop. :) -JCJ