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To: Apollo who wrote (7164)	9/28/1999 7:03:00 AM
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news on MSFT......clever strategy to take someone else's idea and make it your own.....Clinton's been doing this to the Republicans for years... From: seattletimes.com. ... The company unveiled its new online plans at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle, saying it was shifting its focus from software as a packaged good to software as a service available on the Web. To Microsoft, which has built its vast empire largely on boxed software, the notion of software as service is a radical rethinking of its core business. ... Microsoft also announced plans for a network computer, called MSN Web Companion. Unlike a personal computer, the device runs on a small operating system and can be turned on instantly. Its sole function is to let users log on to the Internet and surf the Web. Microsoft didn't disclose who will make the device. A test version is scheduled to be completed later this year. The device is the kind that Microsoft foes Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems have long championed. They have seen network computers as a way to crush Microsoft's operating-system hegemony, because programming could run off the Web instead of a personal computer running Microsoft's Windows. Two weeks ago, Sun unveiled its latest network computer, the Sun Ray. .... Ballmer also hinted that Microsoft will offer a Web-based version of the company's popular Office suite of software soon. "It's not in the far distant future," Ballmer said. "Probably far sooner that you might expect." -----