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To: Apollo who wrote (7165)	9/30/1999 10:46:00 AM
From: StockHawk	Respond to of 54805

>news on MSFT......clever strategy to take someone else's idea and make it your own< A year or so ago John Dvorak wrote an interesting article in PC Magazine contrasting MSFT with INTC. He felt that INTC often exhibited the "not invented here" bias against new outside ideas, while MSFT was just the opposite - searching for good ideas from the outside to modify and adopt as their own. He saw this as a major strength of MSFT that would keep them on top for years to come. StockHawk