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To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (59918)	9/15/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 90042

Congrats to all VSIO stockholders! MICROSOFT CORP. (MSFT: 93-11/16, - 1-3/8) said on Wednesday that it planned to buy VISIO CORP (VSIO: 40-7/16, + 6-15/16), a maker of technical drawing software, for $1.3 billion in stock, with each Visio share to be exchanged for 0.45 shares of Microsoft. Seattle-based Visio will become the Visio division operating within Microsoft's business productivity group led by Microsoft's senior vice president Bob Muglia. Visio will continue to operate with no immediate changes. See Full Story at infobeat.com.